Description
Across generations and borders, four Dominican sisters and their daughters carry a legacy of extraordinary gifts, hard-won resilience, and secrets shaped by migration from the countryside to New York City. When Flor, a seventy-year-old matriarch who dreams of death, plans her own living wake, the family is drawn together to reckon with memory, desire, buried wounds, and the stories they have inherited. Told through the distinct voices of women navigating love, motherhood, identity, and the expectations placed on their bodies, the novel explores what it means to belong to a family while still becoming oneself. Lyrical, intimate, and richly rooted in Dominican culture, it is a vibrant portrait of female power and the complicated bonds that hold generations together.
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paperback
Canongate Books
Published Jan 1, 2023
ISBN: 9781805300489
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Details
First Published
2023
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo.