Please join us at a book club to discuss the novel Family Lore by Dominican American author Elizabeth Acevedo!
We will be discussing this over Zoom, and our events always bring attendees from all over the world.
"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. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo’s inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces—one family’s journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come."
You'll receive an email prior to the event with information on how to join the Zoom call and discussion questions for the book. EventBrite emails don't always make it through so I'll be sending them from my own email (kate@adventurouskate.com).
