Fiction – Literary

Release Date: 8/1/2023(WILL SHIP DIRECTLY FROM OUR SUPPLIER’S WAREHOUSE)

From bestselling, National Book Awardwinning author Elizabeth Acevedo comes her first novel for adults, the story of one Dominican-American family told through the voices of its women as they await a gathering that will forever change their lives.

Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides she wants a living wakea party to bring her family and community together to celebrate the long life shes ledher sisters are surprised. Has Flor forseen her own death, or someone elses? Does she have other motives? She refuses to tell her sisters, Matilde, Pastora, and Camila.

But Flor isnt the only person with secrets. Matilde has tried for decades to cover the extent of her husbands infidelity, but she must now confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora is typically the most reserved sister, but Flors wake motivates this driven woman to solve her siblings problems. Camila is the youngest sibling, and 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 is reuniting with her first love, who was imprisoned when they were both still kids; Ona is married for years and attempting to conceive. Ona must decide whether its worth it to keep tryingto have a child, and the anthropology research thats begun to feel lackluster.

Spanning the three days prior to the wake,Family Loretraces 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 niecesone familys journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come.

Family Loreis a deeply Dominican book, full of raw emotional power. It is at once intimate and epic, one of the most resonant representations of a family and world like my own that I’ve ever read. There is so much to love about this wise, funny and original noveland its a singular contribution to Dominican Diasporic letters. -Naima Coster,New York Timesbestselling author ofWhats Mine and Yours
Elizabeth Acevedo’sFamily Loreis a sweeping multi-generational story of a family of women whose special powers have helped them overcome personal, familial, and historical challenges that both bond them together and at times threaten to pull them apart but ultimately navigate them into the full abrazos of love.Acevedo is in full command ofherspecial powers as a storyteller of compassionate, capacious and lyrical imagination.Make room on your shelves, readers, for this strong new voice with an old soul and a deep well of understanding of who we wonderfully are for the brief time we are beings. -Julia Alvarez, author ofAfterlifeandHow the Garca Girls Lost Their Accents
“Flor is throwing herself a wake and reminding us that even a long life is too short. So while we are here let’s eat, and dance, and be alive.Acevedo has written unforgettable characters who breathe new life to how we grieve, age, take care of each other.Family Loreis a big-hearted novel, a wonderful debut!” -Angie Cruz, author ofHow Not to Drown in a Glass of WaterandDominicana