Elizabeth Acevedo Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Flor tiene un don: puede predecir, hasta el día, cuándo morirá alguien. Cuando decide que quiere un velorio en vida, una fiesta para reunir a su familia y comunidad y celebrar la larga vida que ha llevado, sus hermanas se sorprenden. ¿Ha previsto Flor su propia muerte? ¿O la de alguien más? Pero Flor no es la única con secretos. Matilde ha intentado durante décadas ocultar la magnitud de la infidelidad de su esposo, pero ahora debe enfrentar la verdadera situación de su matrimonio. Pastora, la hermana más reservada, se siente motivada por el velorio de Flor a intentar resolver los problemas de su hermana. Camila, la más joven, ha decidido que ya no quiere ser ignorada. La siguiente generación, las primas Ona y Yadi, enfrentan sus propios tumultos: Yadi se reencuentra con su primer amor, quien fue encarcelado cuando eran niños; y Ona, casada desde hace años, intenta concebir. Abarcando los tres días previos al velorio, "Legado familiar" traza las vidas de cada una de las mujeres Marte, entrelazando pasado y presente, Santo Domingo y Nueva York.

The second poignant, powerful and passionate novel in verse from the 2019 Carnegie Medal winning author of The Poet X.

From the New York Times bestselling author of the National Book Award longlist title The Poet X comes a dazzling novel in prose about a girl with talent, pride, and a drive to feed the soul that keeps her fire burning bright. Ever since she got pregnant freshman year, Emoni Santiago’s life has been about making the tough decisions—doing what has to be done for her daughter and her abuela. The one place she can let all that go is in the kitchen, where she adds a little something magical to everything she cooks, turning her food into straight-up goodness. Even though she dreams of working as a chef after she graduates, Emoni knows that it’s not worth her time to pursue the impossible. Yet despite the rules she thinks she has to play by, once Emoni starts cooking, her only choice is to let her talent break free.

Xiomara has always kept her words to herself. When it comes to standing her ground in her Harlem neighbourhood, she lets her fists and her fierceness do the talking. But X has secrets - her feelings for a boy in her bio class, and the notebook full of poems that she keeps under her bed. And a slam poetry club that will pull those secrets into the spotlight. Because in spite of a world that might not want to hear her, Xiomara refuses to stay silent