This stunning YA debut is a timely and heartfelt speculative narrative about healing, faith, and freedom.

Seventeen-year-old Marisol provides always imagined being American, learning what Americans and the united states are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who got employed Marisol’s mother being a maid. When she pictured an American life for herself, she dreamed of a real life Aimee and Amber’s, the name heroes of her preferred American Television show. She under no circumstances pictured fleeing her home in about The Grief Keeper Un Salvador under risk of death and stealing over the US border as ‘an illegal’, but after her brother is murdered and her young sister, Gabi’s, existence is also put into equal jeopardy, she’s no choice, especially because she knows everything is certainly her fault. If she acquired by no means dropped for the charms of a beautiful girl called Liliana, Pablo might be alive, her mom wouldn’t be in concealing and she and Gabi wouldn’t have been captured crossing the boundary.

But they have been caught and their asylum request will most certainly be denied. With really no options remaining, Marisol jumps at an unusual opportunity to stay in the United States. She’s asked to become grief keeper, acquiring the grief of another into her own body to save lots of a existence. It’s a risky, experimental study, but if this means Marisol will keep her sister safe, she’ll risk anything. She just never imagined one of the risks would be falling in like, a like that may even be powerful more than enough to finally help her encounter her very own crushing grief.

The Grief Keeper is a tender tale that explores the heartbreak and consequences of when both love and human beings are branded illegal.