‘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 into how we grieve, age, take care of each other. Family Lore is a big hearted novel, a wonderful debut!’
ANGIE CRUZ, author of DOMINICANA        

‘Family Lore is 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 of her special 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 of AFTERLIFE        

‘Family Lore is 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 novel’
NAIMA COSTER, author of WHAT'S MINE AND YOURS

‘Only Elizabeth Acevedo could make an epic feel so intimate, so perfectly crafted and tightly drawn. Family Lore is a devastating exploration of the liveliness of the Marte women. No writer on earth transforms a page into a home with distinct emotional chambers like Acevedo, and here she does it with language that is equally lush and lacerating. This is how stories should be made’
KIESE LAYMON, author of LONG DIVISION AND HEAVY

Praise for The Poet X:

‘The force and intensity behind her words practically pushes them off the page . . . This is a book from the heart, and for the heart’
New York Times Book Review        

‘I fell in love . . . This one will stay with you a long time‘
ANGIE THOMAS, author of THE HATE YOU GIVE        

‘This was the type of book where “I’ll just do 50 pages” turned into finishing it in 2 reads’
TOMI ADEYEMI, author of THE CHILDREN OF BLOOD AND BONE        

‘Powerful, finely crafted . . . Readers will yearn to finish this verse novel in a single sitting, but its echoes will remain with them much longer’
Guardian