86. Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo

The Library Coven

This week we are discussing Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo, which was suggested by patron and friend-of-the-show Deanna. Both of us loved Acevedo’s novel-in-verse The Poet X, but we had some differing opinions about this newly released adult novel.

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• Recommend if you like…
  • magical realism, generally
  • Isabel Allende
  • Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez and/or The Inheritance of Orquidia Divina by Zoraida Córdova (winding, multigenerational narratives)
• The book k mentions about the Mirabal sisters is called En el tiempo de las mariposas (In the Time of the Butterflies) by Julia Álvarez.
• Trujillo regime information
  • The Dictator Next Door: the Good Neighbor Policy and the Trujillo Regime in the Dominican Republic 1930-1945 by Eric Paul Roorda
  • The Dictator’s Seduction: Politics and Popular Imagination in the Era of Trujillo by Lauren H. Derby
  • “About Trujillo” – primer by the Chicago Public Libraries
• Mucho Mucho Amor: The Legend of Walter Mercado (documentary on Netflix)

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