We Are Okay (Pre-Owned Paperback 9780142422939) by Nina Lacour

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9780142422939. Very good condition. Trade paperback. Language: English. Pages: 256. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 256 p. Intended for a young adult/teenage audience. Nina LaCour s award-winning achingly beautiful novel is now available in paperback! -Includes a new foreword by Nicola Yoon #1 bestselling author of The Sun is Also a Star and Everything Everything- Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award Short poetic and gorgeously written. -The New York Times Book Review A beautiful devastating piece of art. -Bookpage You go through life thinking there s so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone your wallet and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn t spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast at college in New York Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she s tried to outrun. Now months later alone in an emptied dorm for winter break Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that s been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart. An intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you love. Praise for We Are Okay Nina LaCour treats her emotions so beautifully and with such empathy. -Bustle Exquisite. -Kirkus LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss bewilderment and emotional paralysis . . . raw and beautiful. -Booklist Beautifully crafted . . . . A quietly moving potent novel. -SLJ A moving portrait of a girl struggling to rebound after everything she s known has been thrown into disarray. -Publishers Weekly Bittersweet and hopeful . . . poetic and skillfully crafted. -Shelf Awareness So lonely and beautiful that I could hardly breathe. This is a perfect book. -Stephanie Perkins bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss As beautiful as the best memories as sad as the best songs as hopeful as your best dreams. -Siobhan Vivian bestselling author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World You can feel every peak and valley of Marin s emotional journey on your skin in your gut. Beautifully written heartfelt and deeply real. -Adi Alsaid author of Never Always Sometimes and Let s Get Lost