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    Kindeo - Save your story

    Kindeo - Save your story

    Lifestyle and Photo & Video

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    Kindeo makes it easy and fun to save important memories and stories for your family, which can help...

    Hold Still

    Hold Still

    Sally Mann

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    This National Book Award finalist is a revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history...

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ClareR (5726 KP) rated Family Lore in Books

Nov 11, 2023  
Family Lore
Family Lore
Elizabeth Acevedo | 2023 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry, Science Fiction/Fantasy
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7.0 (1 Ratings)
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Family Lore focuses on the Marie sisters: Matilda, Flor, Pastor and Camille, and two of their daughters, Ona and Yadi. Some of these women have special abilities, and for Flor, that is being able to predict when someone is going to die. So there is great consternation when she decides to hold a living wake.

Ona is an anthropologist and decides to interview the women in her family to find out about their origins: the older sisters come from the Dominican Republic, and their lives there were very different to those of their children.

This is a family with a lot going on! If you like family dramas, then you would be just the reader for this book. There’s a lot about the different relationships between the characters, marriages, unfaithfulness, low self esteem, maternal love, fertility problems, cultural differences, family arguments and resilience.

It’s beautifully written - Acevedo is a poet as well - and all the characters really do have their own voices in this wide-sweeping novel.
  
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catntl3 (0 KP) rated Facebook in Apps

Feb 4, 2018  
Facebook
Facebook
Communication, Entertainment, Events, Social Networking
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7.6 (436 Ratings)
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playing games catching up with family and friends (0 more)
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facebook
I like facebook for catching up with people i use to know and my family and friends .the bad things are people take things a little too far some times.
the app it self is good but i get annoyed by the updates