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NATIONAL BESTSELLER

A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!

Winner of the NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction

Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

From National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women

Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila.

But Flor isn’t the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi,

Family Lore

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      Publisher Harper Collins
      Imprint Collins
      Published 1 August 2023
      ISBN-13 9780063323704
      978-0063323704
      ISBN-10 0063323702

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      NATIONAL BESTSELLER

      A GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK!

      Winner of the NAACP Image Award, Outstanding Literary Work, Fiction

      Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

      From National Book Award-winning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women

      Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wake—a party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life she’s led—her sisters are surprised. Has Flor foreseen her own death, or someone else’s? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila.

      But Flor isn’t the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi,

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