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Published
Oct 14, 2025
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends
Subgenre
Fantasy
Section
Young Adult

The Leaving Room

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.

  • National Book Award Finalist 2025