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We Are Okay
by Nina LaCour
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Nina Lacour's writing will slowly grow on you, leaving an imprint on your heart. There's an undercurrent of peace and grief that tries to reach you. Her words are extremely simple but they carry such heavy emotions that one cannot help but stagger under its weight. In the past two weeks, I read two of her novels and now I'm afraid that I can never stop wanting her books. When I read We Are Okay couple of days ago, I grieved for the protagonist for losing her mother as a child and then her grandfather who looked after her. When everything seemed like a lie to the young girl in the story, my world tilted upside down too. But amidst all that there's a tiny flower of hope that bloomed in my heart, one that refused to shed a petal and just like that, I healed.
Marin moves to New York to study soon after her grandfather dies and in doing so, cuts ties with her girl best friend Mabel back in Southern California. When Mabel comes to visit her, their shared past resurfaces, along with Marin's relationship with her grandfather. His death reveals answers that she was always hesitant to know and the reality of it shakes her world. With Mabel's arrival many months later, she is forced to come to terms with his death, his reasons for being the way he was and to love him nevertheless. There's not much romance in the book between the two girls apart from that one summer of shared kisses and heady touching and Marin knows better to not rekindle the relationship. What they need now is friendship which heals them like the art of Kintsugi. All the broken pieces fit together.
We Are Okay is a book to be felt, one that makes your heart heavy with unshed tears to only heal you when you flip over to the last page. I don't think I have ever felt such longing and want on behalf of any character. This book is hauntingly beautiful in every sense and it would be a shame for people to not experience it.
Rating : 4.8/5
I read this for the first week of #ReadWithPride
Nina Lacour's writing will slowly grow on you, leaving an imprint on your heart. There's an undercurrent of peace and grief that tries to reach you. Her words are extremely simple but they carry such heavy emotions that one cannot help but stagger under its weight. In the past two weeks, I read two of her novels and now I'm afraid that I can never stop wanting her books. When I read We Are Okay couple of days ago, I grieved for the protagonist for losing her mother as a child and then her grandfather who looked after her. When everything seemed like a lie to the young girl in the story, my world tilted upside down too. But amidst all that there's a tiny flower of hope that bloomed in my heart, one that refused to shed a petal and just like that, I healed.
Marin moves to New York to study soon after her grandfather dies and in doing so, cuts ties with her girl best friend Mabel back in Southern California. When Mabel comes to visit her, their shared past resurfaces, along with Marin's relationship with her grandfather. His death reveals answers that she was always hesitant to know and the reality of it shakes her world. With Mabel's arrival many months later, she is forced to come to terms with his death, his reasons for being the way he was and to love him nevertheless. There's not much romance in the book between the two girls apart from that one summer of shared kisses and heady touching and Marin knows better to not rekindle the relationship. What they need now is friendship which heals them like the art of Kintsugi. All the broken pieces fit together.
We Are Okay is a book to be felt, one that makes your heart heavy with unshed tears to only heal you when you flip over to the last page. I don't think I have ever felt such longing and want on behalf of any character. This book is hauntingly beautiful in every sense and it would be a shame for people to not experience it.
Rating : 4.8/5
I read this for the first week of #ReadWithPride