All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater

All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater is a beautiful story and I really loved this book.  This is a story all about love, but not necessarily a romantic kind of love (although there is some of that too).  It is a story about the love of a family.  The love that each of us has for moms and dads, for husbands and wives, for brothers and sisters, cousins, and aunts and uncles.  It is a beautiful story about family and the bonds we share. 

But it is also a story about so much else.  It is about learning from out past and not just following the status quo.  In doing this, it teaches about taking risks and forging our own paths.  The Soria family teaches about not just accepting what has been, but being willing to change the things that always been accepted. 

From Amazon:

Here is a thing everyone wants:

A miracle.


Here is a thing everyone fears:

What it takes to get one.


Any visitor to Bicho Raro, Colorado, is likely to find a landscape of dark saints, forbidden love, scientific dreams, miracle-mad owls, estranged affections, one or two orphans, and a sky full of watchful desert stars.

At the heart of this place you will find the Soria family, who all have the ability to perform unusual miracles. And at the heart of this family are three cousins longing to change its future: Beatriz, the girl without feelings, who wants only to be free to examine her thoughts; Daniel, the Saint of Bicho Raro, who performs miracles for everyone but himself; and Joaquin, who spends his nights running a renegade radio station under the name Diablo Diablo.

They are all looking for a miracle. But the miracles of Bicho Raro are never quite what you expect.