Review: We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

This was the kind of book that makes me feel bad about the other books I gave five stars. I found this book so bone-deep undeniably moving that I don't quite know what to do with my feelings about it.

This book is a 'quiet' book, it is character driven, it takes place over three days but also a year but also 15 years. It is about loneliness, and family, and found family, and the importance of connecting to someone else. It is also about lying, to yourself and to each other. And loss and mental illness and depression.

I just felt consumed by this book.

Like every page I read was burying itself into my heart. I am obsessed.

It follows Marin, her dead Grandfather, and her best friend who she hasn't spoken to in months. And that is all the synopsis I can really share. It's about a girl in her first year in college which I always love when YA lets the characters be other forms of a young adult than just high school.

I cannot recommend this book enough. Also I cried about 6 times. In just over 200 pages.