On What Cathy Read Next last week
Monday – I shared My Five Favourite March 2023 Reads.
Tuesday – This week’s Top Ten Tuesday topic put a spotlight on self-published/indie press books and I selected Ten Books From Independent Publishers.
Wednesday – As always WWW Wednesday is a weekly opportunity to share what I’ve just read, what I’m currently reading and what I plan to read next… and to take a peek at what others are reading.
Thursday – I published my review of short story collection, God’s Children Are Little Broken Things by Arinze Ifeakandu, one of the books shortlisted for the Swansea University Dyland Thomas Prize 2023.
Friday – I shared my review of historical mystery, The Drums of War (Thomas Tallant #3) by Michael Ward.
New arrivals
Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo (eARC, Canongate via NetGalley)
The Marte women are preparing for a gathering that will change their lives forever
Flor has a gift: she can predict, to the day, when someone will die. So when she decides to host her own living wake – bringing together her family and community to celebrate her long life – her sisters Matilde, Pastora and Camila are concerned. What has she foreseen?
But Flor isn’t the only one with a secret. Matilde has tried to hide the extent of her husband’s infidelity for years, and now must confront the true state of her marriage. Pastora – always on a mission to solve her sisters’ problems – needs to come to terms with her past. And Camila, the youngest sibling, has decided she no longer wants to be taken for granted. Alongside their struggles, the next generation of Marte women face their own tumult of family obligations, infertility, and heartache.
Spanning the three days prior to the wake, Family Lore traces the intertwining stories of these sisters and cousins, mothers and daughters, aunts and nieces, to ask the ultimate question: what does it take to live a good life, for yourself and those you love?
On What Cathy Read Next this week
Currently reading
Planned posts
- Book Review: Elizabeth Finch by Julian Barnes
- Book Review: The Sinner’s Mark by S. W. Perry
- Book Review: The Chosen by Elizabeth Lowry
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