When Mabel arrives, there is an awkwardness between them both. Alone in the entire school, aside from the groundskeeper, Marin must come to terms with her loss, and with the upcoming visit with her old best friend and girlfriend, to whom she has never explained why she had picked up and left after her grandfather’s death. Over Christmas vacation, while everyone else is going home with their families, Marin will be staying behind in the dorms in New York – she feels she has no family to go home to anymore.

When she finally is able to move into a dorm room, she finds herself enjoying the company of her roommate, Hannah, although she still feels broken inside. Marin has had a difficult time dealing with things – she lost her grandfather, and instead of dealing with her emotions, she flees to New York to start college early, staying in a motel until her semester starts. With beautiful writing and a story that will cause you to feel emotions from the very bottom of your heart, We Are Okay makes takes place over a three day period – three days with the same two characters, resolving a conflict that left both of them broken in their own ways. Not in the way that everyone loses something, but in the way that undoes your life, undoes your self, so that when you look at your face it isn’t yours anymore.” “I wonder if there’s a secret current that connects people who lost something. I loved her writing style, as well – it felt like I was spending an evening with a best friend that I hadn’t seen in a while, and because of that, it made the book easy to fall in love with. It is the first book by Nina LaCour that I have read to date, although I do have others that have been written by her. We Are Okay offers all of those things (along with a strikingly beautiful cover), and I have to say that I am thoroughly impressed by this book. I love books that are loaded up with plenty of emotion, but even more than that, I love character driven novels that feature a main character and supporting characters learning more about themselves, growing as individuals, and dealing with everyday problems and issues that real people face.

Okay nina