We Are Okay

Author: Nina LaCour

Published: February 2017

Pages: 236

When Marin’s grandfather—her only living relative and step-in parent following his daughter’s death—is presumed drowned by the police, she becomes lost in doldrums of aloneness and lament. And when all of San Francisco reminded her of him, she ran—with only her phone, her wallet, a Polaroid of her mother, and without forewarning, without even a word to her best friend, Mabel. Marin hasn’t spoken to her since that day she deserted the coast and their life there. But thousands of miles from California at a university in New York, she still feels phantoms of the pain she tried to outrun. And months later, in a dorm emptied for winter break, Marin stirs. Mabel is coming to visit, and Marin must finally face all that pends between them.