Amber McBride

In 1970, twelve-year-old Onyx hides his mother's early-onset dementia so Child Protective Services won't place him in foster care, and he dreams of becoming an astronaut while hatching a plan to get her the help she needs.

Seventeen-year-old Gospel is a Keeper who guides young people who have just died through an in-between place, saving each one's best memory in a jar. When another Keeper, Melodee, arrives in her Leaving Room, Gospel starts to question her own existence.

Whimsy, who struggles with clinical depression, and Faerry meet at a hospital and are drawn into a magical forest connected to their pasts.

After a car accident killed her family, Moth, a Black dancer living with her aunt, meets Sani, a Navajo boy struggling with depression. The two set out on a road trip toward his father on the Navajo Nation, searching for their roots.