![]() As Marin and Mabel rediscover their friendship-which had begun to grow into something more-Marin is prompted to finally work through her feelings about the events that sent her running. ![]() Printz Award-winning novel, published in 2017, is a brief but powerfully affecting meditation on loneliness and grief. Alternating between Marin’s isolated present and the summer leading up to her grandfather’s sudden death, Nina LaCour’s Michael L. This next morning, Marin prepares for Mabel’s arrival later that day. The next day her friend is scheduled to visit. The problem is that she hasn’t spoken to anyone from her life in California, including Mabel, since the day she left. Marin is alone in her college dormitory for the winter break. We Are Okay opens four months later in snowy upstate New York, where Marin is spending winter break of her first year at an unnamed college alone in her dorm, awaiting a visit from her long-time best friend Mabel. After the man who raised her dies, Marin flees across the country, from San Francisco to New York, with only her phone, her wallet and a picture of her mother on her. ![]() ![]() Now, the 18-year-old has lost her grandfather, too. As a toddler, Marin lost her mother to a surfing accident. ![]()
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