After you’ve been Young Person’s Poet’s Laureate, written a New York Times bestseller, won multiple wards including a National Book Award and a Carnegie Medal – what is there left to do?

Perhaps write for a completely different audience?

In Family Lore, the first novel written for an adult audience by the award-winning, best-selling Dominican American author, Elizabeth Acevedo, an inter-generational cast of Dominican women coome to terms with their desires, regrets and the power they hold within themselves.

We sit down with the author to delve into the specifics of language, the Black Latinx experience and how Elizabeth protects her story and her reader.

This interview has been edited for length and clarity.