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Family Lore by Elizabeth Acevedo
4.0
emotional hopeful reflective sad medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

I really like Acevedo's work in YA and this feels like it's on the same wavelength, just expanding the scope of what can be talked about and who is in the story.
This one braids together the thread of resilience that comes from the care that others take for you, the impossibility of a specific future with the certainty of a future, and the very real presence of what it's like to live among a community of women.
Which I think is so much of what Acevedo wants to capture, writing in the strong literary tradition of quiet magics.