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Elizabeth Acevedo, author of Family Lore

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.

Week of May 27, 2024

Paperback releases for the week of May 27th include RESURRECTION WALK, Michael Connelly's seventh Lincoln Lawyer thriller, which finds defense attorney Mickey Haller enlisting the help of his half-brother, retired LAPD Detective Harry Bosch, to prove the innocence of a woman convicted of killing her husband; HELLO STRANGER by Katherine Center, a hopelessly romantic novel about finding love, confronting a haunting past, and figuring out what --- and who --- really matters; DROWNING, T.J. Newman's adrenaline-fueled thriller about a commercial jetliner that crashes into the ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside --- and the extraordinary rescue operation to save them; Emma Donoghue's LEARNED BY HEART, a heartbreakingly gorgeous novel based on the true story of two girls who fall secretly, deeply and dangerously in love at boarding school in 19th-century York; and MAKING A SCENE, a powerful and poignant memoir-in-essays from actor Constance Wu, who gives readers an intimate portrait of the pressures and pleasures of existing in today’s world.