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, face tumult of their own.
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. This is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces — one family’s journey through their history.
NOTE: Since I'm the librarian for our little Crown Center, I was about to reshelve this book yesterday when I read what it was about. I went back to the notebook where we sign our own book choices in and out, using our names and apartment numbers, and the date when we took it and when we returned it. Seeing that a neighbor I know had just read it, I signed it out and when I ran into Linda walking her dog later, I asked what she thought. Her answer was short and sweet: "Excellent!"
Week in Review
- On Monday, I mused about the 10/10 book I had just read, HERE. And that's it for the week, my slowest reading and writing week that I can remember ever. This is another reason I'm so ready to crack open this book and get immersed in the story of the lives of these sisters.
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