SLCL Presents National Book Award-Winning Author Elizabeth Acevedo

St. Louis County Library Foundation’s Favorite Author Series and The Novel Neighbor present acclaimed novelist, poet, and National Book Award-winner Elizabeth Acevedo for her novel, “Family Lore.”

The event will take place on Monday, June 17 at 7:00 p.m. at the Clark Family Branch, 1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63131.

The program is free and open to the public. Books will be available for purchase at the event from The Novel Neighbor.

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick and winner of the NAACP Image Award, Elizabeth Acevedo’s “Family Lore” shares the story of one Dominican American family told through the voices of its women.

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? 

But Flor isn’t the only person with secrets: her sisters are hiding things, too. And the next generation cousins 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. Told with Elizabeth Acevedo’s inimitable and incandescent voice, this is an indelible portrait of sisters and cousins, aunts and nieces—one family’s journey through their history, helping them better navigate all that is to come.

ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is the New York Times-bestselling author of “The Poet X,” which won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, the Michael L. Printz Award, the Pura Belpré Award, the Carnegie medal, the Boston Globe–Horn Book Award, and the Walter Award. She is also the author of “With the Fire on High”—which was named a best book of the year by the New York Public Library, NPR, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal—and “Clap When You Land,” which was a Boston Globe–Horn Book Honor book and a Kirkus finalist. Acevedo is a National Poetry Slam Champion, 

Program sites are accessible. With at least two weeks' notice, accommodations will be made for persons with disabilities. Call 314-994-3300 or contact us. 

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