We are okay
We are okayNina LaCour
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We are okay (2017)

Nina LaCour

Others: Mostly positive

After leaving her life behind to go to college in New York, Marin must face the truth about the tragedy that happened in the final weeks of summer when her friend Mabel comes to visit.

ISBN:
9781432882433
Length:
234 pages

Genres: young adult

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Reviews3

emmmabooks
Mixed

We Are Okay was just like a little boring maybe. It's all about this girl who like has gone through a really tragic loss and she like went away to school and her prior friend who she had a like romantic relationship with comes to visit her for a couple of days. It was just like really low-key, like not a lot happened and I feel like there was a lot of good subtext in the book.

Thoughts on Tomes
Loved it

it is such an emotional book and something that just like sits with you but it's one that I would like to reread again and just like have more time with because I was so interested in what was gonna happen that I just kept reading it so quickly that I feel like I've forgotten bits and pieces of it but definitely a five-star contemporary read for me this year