Generationaldrama Histórias

*Completed* Apocryphal Family Tree exists between American Gods by Neil Gaiman and Sister Mine by Nalo Hopkinson with deities from the African diaspora along with a mix of supernatural creatures from folklore, myth, and legend. The story follows Lenny, a recent college grad who wanted to heal the rift between her immediate family and her maternal extended family, but realizes her parents did not tell her the whole truth about their estrangement. Lenny is plunged into an unfamiliar world where her ability to see and communicate with the dead is a small part of a much larger picture. Content warning: I make an attempt to address colorism and internalized anti-Blackness toward the end of the book, but I'm still learning and figuring out how to do address it correctly so the depiction/handling is definitely very rough.

For years, Sunday dinner has been sacred in the Langston family. Every week, three generations gather around Odessa Langston's table to eat, laugh, argue, and keep alive the tradition she shared with her late husband, Theodore. Five years after his death, Odessa is determined to keep her daughters, their husbands, and her seven grandchildren close. But behind the laughter and familiar recipes are strained marriages, complicated relationships, buried resentment, and secrets no one has dared bring to the table. When one Sunday dinner uncovers something the family was never meant to know, everything they believed about the Langston name begins to unravel. Because every family has a table. And theirs has a secret. 🍽️

Genre: Dark Romance | Generational saga | Twisted past Description: It all starts with a girl trying to outrun the quiet abuse of her childhood and gets thrown into something much bigger then she can handle. What follows is a generational legacy of damage, passed down like fine china-delicate, sharp-edged, and impossible to forgive or forget. we first meet Mary when she is 17 y/o . As a victim of abuse at home she starts hanging out with the wrong crowd to escape it , from there her choices break her and generations to come . If you think you know where this is going- No you don't.

Satti-Mara Alvenia Buena and Juellian Raven Satirez Pintuia grew up together - not just as friends, but as two souls connected by faith, silence, and quiet prayers. Si Mara, isang mahinhin at simpleng babae na lumaki bilang ampon, ay natutong magmahal sa pagitan ng mga kanta at misa. Umaasa siyang balang araw, maririnig ng langit ang tinig niya... pati na rin ng lalaking matagal na niyang tinitingnan mula sa malayo - si Juellian. Si Juellian naman, pinalaki ng lolo't lola na tagapag-alaga ng simbahan. He once dreamed of becoming a priest - until he realized that his heart already belonged to someone. But fate had other plans. Dinala siya ng mga magulang niya sa Canada for an arranged marriage - leaving Mara behind with nothing but silence, music, and a heart full of unanswered prayers. Mara stayed. She kept singing. Not for herself, but for the love she once offered to heaven - and to the boy who never came back. Years passed. Wounds turned quiet. Prayers became whispers. And just when she thought it was all over... "Pero paano kung ang akala mong wakas... ay siyang simula pa lang pala? Paano kung may second chance pa ang dalawang pusong minsang pinaglayo ng tadhana?"

Love, a slice of love.