Add The Grief Keeper to Goodreads! “ Villasante’s novel is for the reader who wants to get down and dirty with the emotional landscape, who wants a romance that is hard-earned and sweetly won. The Grief Keeper [creates] a realistic yet still hopeful world seen through the gaze of an intelligent, curious protagonist. ”. When her brother is murdered, and her little sister’s life is threatened, seventeen-year . Reviewed in the United States on Septem. Verified Purchase. The description on the inside of the book jacket says it all: "The Grief Keeper is a tender tale of heartbreak and healing in a frighteningly possible world where both love and human beings are branded illegal."/5(82). · The Grief Keeper is a contemporary story with sci-fi aspects following Marisol, a Salvadorian lesbian who fled her country for her life, together with her younger sister Gabi. To legally stay in the US, she is forced to take part in a program in which she'll have to bear the weight of someone else's grief, all of this while dealing with her own trauma/5(K).
The Grief Keeper Alexandra Villasante. Putnam, $ (p) ISBN Buy this book. Villasante's engrossing debut about two Salvadoran sisters recently arrived in the U.S. opens. Book Review: The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante Reviewed by Cris Rhodes. DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK: Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol's mother as a maid. When she pictured an American life. The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante Edition Hardcover edition Publisher Penguin Random House Imprint G.P. Putnam's Sons ISBN Awards and Honors Lambda Literary Awards LGBTQ Children's/Young Adult Finalist -
The Grief Keeper is a science fiction novel for young adults written by Alexandra Villasante. The book was published in by Putnam and received the Lambda Literary Award in the following year. The book tells the story of two sisters from El Salvador, Marisol and Gabi, who flee from an immigrant detention center on the American border, with the older sister, Marisol, being forced to participate in an experimental procedure or risk being deported. Book Review: The Grief Keeper by Alexandra Villasante. Reviewed by Cris Rhodes. DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK: Seventeen-year-old Marisol has always dreamed of being American, learning what Americans and the US are like from television and Mrs. Rosen, an elderly expat who had employed Marisol’s mother as a maid. When she pictured an American life for herself, she dreamed of a life like Aimee and Amber’s, the title characters of her favorite American TV show. “With both timeless poignancy and heartbreaking relevance, The Grief Keeper is a stunning exploration of how we love, how pain lives in us, and how we survive. Alexandra Villasante’s gift for writing the deepest emotional truths resonates through every page.” —Anna-Marie McLemore, author of Wild Beauty and Blanca Roja.
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