![]() ![]() Download the entire issue for the Kindle or Nook. You go through life thinking theres so much you need. This article was originally published in the February 2017 issue of BookPage. Nina LaCours award-winning, achingly beautiful novel is now available in paperback. We Are Okay is an extraordinary work by an author who keeps redefining and elevating her genre. The title hints at a happy ending, but the journey toward it passes through some of the darkest corners of the heart. If her existence now is sparse, it is not without color, or life. But notice the details LaCour shines a light on: the perfect yellow bowls Marin bought at a pottery shop, the potted plant thriving and in need of a larger container. The truth about the event that caused Marin to leave San Francisco with only what she held in her hands comes out slowly, and her grief in the face of it is cavernous. Her lonely Christmas break is interrupted by a visit from her best friend (and now ex-girlfriend), Mabel. Marin is in school in New York, quietly living a new life and trying to leave behind the life she ran from. It’s a beautiful, devastating piece of art. In We Are Okay, author Nina LaCour ( Everything Leads to You) tells a story more of absence than presence, looking with calm directness at grief and betrayal and the ways they can multiply outward. ![]()
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