- American literature
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.
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Contemporary, earnest, grave and spare.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- sparerichly built
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- Elizabeth Acevedo
- First published
- 2023
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers, Canongate Books, Thorndike Press
- Editions
- 7
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781805300489
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