We Are Okay
Author: Nina LaCour
Publisher: UQP
Release date: 5th March 2019
Pages: 240 pages
R.R.P: $19.99
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.
My Review
Thoughts on the book: We Are Okay is the award winning book from Nina LaCour is told in both the past and the present and tells the story of Marin, a girl who has suffered a personal tragedy but instead of dealing with it surrounded by her friends, she ran away from her problems. Now after being at college for a few months her best friend from the world she ran away from is coming to visit her. Marin has barely spoken to Mabel since the tragedy has occurred and now feels the pressure of having to fill in their time together when before they never had a problem. But once Marin starts telling Mabel what happened will their strained friendship become stronger or will it shatter completely like Marin feels her life did.
A massive thank you to UQP for sending me a copy of Are We Okay by Nina LaCour to read and review and AusYaBloggers for holding this amazing Review Tour and allowing me to be apart of it. I started of We Are Okay with great earnest after hearing such amazing things about it but as I started to read it was nothing like I expected it to be. I started the book thinking that it would be a quick read but then when I struggled I thought it would take me days to read but it was read in one quick sitting. And let me tell you the more I read the quicker I found I was reading. I struggled with the writing a fair bit but I couldn't seem to be able to put the book down as I had to know what happen to Marin to make her the person she is in the present day. This to me clearly meant that this book deserved its award that it recieved because despite not liking the writing the book spoke to me and it really has something for everyone with the themes of friendship, sexuality, mystery, grief and family.
Rating: 4/5
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