Daughter's Keeper

I picked up this book last year at the VNSA book sale. At the time I read this book, I was getting ready for the book sale again and my supply was running low. I haven't had much luck with books lately and I aimed for something on the bookshelf that I had never heard of, hoping for satisfaction with the unknown.

I found it! This was a really good book. It was about a girl, Olivia, who traveled to Mexico after taking a couple semesters off of college. She wanted to find herself and instead found herself in love. She thought her summertime affair with Jorge would end with her returning to her home and writing love letters back and forth. . . well, Jorge had a different idea. While Olivia viewed their "affair" as something fun and entertaining, something she could look back on and *sigh*, Jorge spent all of his family's money and payed the coyotes to bring him to Olivia. She couldn't turn him down! Especially after he had traveled all that way just to be with her.

As time goes on, Jorge has a hard time finding work. Olivia pretends to be in love, if for no other reason, than to spite her controlling mother. Because Jorge can't find legitimate work, he enters into a drug deal with one of Olivia's friends. Olivia was furious to find this out and forbid him to do it again or he would leave her (which is what she hoped would happen). Instead, while she was at home, she answers a phone call with instructions for Jorge to carry out the drug deal. She left the message for Jorge and left to go stay with her mom.

Jorge got busted and Olivia was woken up in her sleep as and convicted as an accessory to something-to-do- with-a-drug-deal. While she's living with her mom, she undergoes the trials and tribulations of facing a 10 year sentance. Oh, and did I mention she just found out she's pregnant? Shiiiiit.

The trial goes on and on and on and on and on. Olivia falls in love with her layer, or better, her layer falls in love with her.

Eventually, Olivia is sentenced to 4 years in prison. Jorge, gets 18 months. Awesome. She has her baby and her mom comes through and agrees to take care of it while Olivia is in prison.

This was a great mother/daughter story. Very entertaining and well worth the read.