It’s only as May becomes June, and turns into July that we start to piece together the fracturing, the rips in this tapestry of their life together. It’s impossible to imagine that now, four months in the future, they haven’t spoken at all. They’re best friends, confidantes (and maybe something more?), and Mabel’s parents treat Marin as one of the family. Life with Gramps has natural rhythms, and Mabel is a constant presence. Even though Marin’s former home life is strange, it’s also wonderfully familiar. In these chapters, we feel warmth, safety, protection. We flashback to California in the summer. Everything about this life seems surreal – college, strangers, big city, and the cold. There’s a winter storm predicted, and Marin’s bemused attitude to snow reflects her sense of displacement and alienation. In the present, it is December in New York. This information is revealed in flashbacks, allowing the powerful metaphor of contrasting weather to represent Marin’s shattered psyche. Why she refused support from her close-knit community and fled across the country.
For such a short book, it packs a punch.Īt the core is the mystery of why Marin left so abruptly. While we chart Marin’s very slow acceptance of her grandfather’s death, we also grapple with the crumbled friendship with best friend, Mabel, and the burgeoning one with Hannah. ‘We Are Okay’ is an exploration of grief. The bed pushed up against a teal ocean reflects the protagonist’s tumultuous mindset and the feelings of insecurity and confusion she experiences.
Nina LaCour’s latest novel, ‘We Are Okay’ has a stunning cover that will likely draw readers’ eyes for a second look.
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