Family Lore

Flor Has A Gift: She Can Predict, To The Day, When Someone Will Die. When She Decides She Wants A Living Wake - A Party To Bring Her Family And Community Together To Celebrate The Long Life SheS Led - Her Sisters Are Surprised. Has Flor Forseen Her Own Death? Or Someone ElseS? Does She Have Other Motives?But Flor IsnT The Only Person With Secrets. Matilde Has Tried For Decades To Cover The Extent Of Her HusbandS Infidelity, But She Now Must Confront The True State Of Her Marriage. Pastora Is Typically The Most Reserved Sister, But FlorS Wake Motivates This Driven Woman To Attempt To Solve Her SiblingS Problems. Camila Is The Youngest Sibling, Often The Forgotten One, But SheS Decided She No Longer Wants To Be Taken For Granted.And The Next Generation, Cousins Ona And Yadi, Face Tumult Of Their Own: Yadi, Reuniting With Her First Love, Who Was Imprisoned When They Were Both Still Kids; And Ona, Married For Years And Attempting To Conceive.Spanning The Three Days Prior To The Wake, Family Lore Traces The Lives Of Each Of The Marte Women, Weaving Together Past And Present, Santo Domingo And New York City. Told With Elizabeth AcevedoS Inimitable And Incandescent Voice, This Is An Indelible Portrait Of Sisters And Cousins, Aunts And Nieces - One FamilyS Journey Through Their History Helping Them Better Navigate All That Is To Come.