And then her mom suddenly dies in a car crash while she was underway to her work as a nurse in the hospital. The life of Marisol, her brother and father has never been the same since then, and everything is a mess after her mother's death. In alternating chapters, Marisol is thinking back on what she said to her mother the weeks before her passing, and the things she better had said instead. And she tries to connect more to her mother through her Filipino culture. At high school, life is also a mess since then, Marisol is angry at everything, and this gets her into fights and into a lot of trouble She tries to deal with her immense grief and guilt, makes new friends and tries to get her brother back on the right track.
This is a book about a teen girl dealing with immense grief. Marisol's journey through the story is not a light one where she made some kind of change. No, in this book she kind of stays in the same situation. It is more how she lands in this awful situation, messes up pretty bad (gets in a fight, doesn't go to the driving lessons her father arranged for her, makes out with the boyfriend of her best friend skipping school). It is a real and raw story that doesn't have a happy end. It is a story that many teens will recognize themselves in I think. What I loved also is how the author weaved the Filipino culture of Marisol's mom into the book, and how this relates to Marisol and her view on it, and the family dynamics of Marisol's family felt all very real.
This is not a book if you are into a lighter kind of YA story, but further on I found it very moving and real, and that's why I liked it.
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