Elizabeth Acevedo's Family Lore
Acevedo's latest is her first novel for adults, and it’s great! I think more literary-minded book clubs will be ALL over this (which I mean as a very high compliment). It’s about four sisters from the Dominican Republic, now in New York, and their adult daughters, and what happens when one of the sisters decides to throw herself a living wake. This is unsettling, since all the women have slightly magical gifts, and hers is the ability to predict when someone will die. I loved all the relationships between the women, and the side notes from the anthropologist daughter who's doing family interviews. Some characters were better developed than others, but of course there were a lot of them so that’s inevitable. I did wish for a little more from the very end, it felt a little abrupt, but overall an enjoyable story for sure. A-.
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A review copy was provided by the publisher. This book will be released on August 1st.
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