RaveThe Washington PostEnchanting ... The present narrative is frequently interrupted by nostalgia and melancholy tied to the motherland, knots of memories of Santo Domingo ... Strikes a rousing prose blend of bluntness, lyricism, slang, pop culture references, and the interlingual expansiveness fluidly employed by first- and second-generation immigrants. With grace and compassion, Family Lore glides through the sometimes riotous or hard-won love of immigrant families ... This is a proudly women-led lineage where stories are always beginning and rarely ending, transmuted by their progeny despite the intended closure of a living wake, where one life quite literally bleeds into another.
