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.Flor isn’t the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation, cousins Ona and Yadi, face tumult of their own.Spanning the three days prior to the wake, this novel traces the lives of each of the Marte women, weaving together past and present, Santo Domingo, and New York City. This is a portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces — one family’s journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come.
Word of the Day
lore /lôr/ noun = a body of traditions and knowledge on a subject or held by a particular group, typically passed from person to person by word of mouth.
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