We Are Okay by Nina Lacour

Marin escapes to college on the other side of the country, but her anxiety and grief follow. 

Reading this book is like reading a poem: the writing is so beautiful. Marin leaves her hometown San Francisco to go to college in New York City, but there’s a cloud when she goes. She stops talking to her best friend Mabel, and it’s unclear why.

Marin plans to spend Christmas in her dorm alone. It’s almost like she’s trying to cure her loneliness with more loneliness, and weirdly, I relate to that, or I have at different times in life. The strands of the story slowly come together when Mabel comes to visit Marin during the holidays.

The fairly simple plot leaves room for amazing characterisation, and descriptions of anxiety that were so familiar. All the overthinking! And that need to just hide away. 

I took away this: People who love you don’t just forget about you, no matter how hard you try to push them away. 

This is a book for #grief #anxiety #loneliness #lgbtq

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