![]() ![]() But both of my parents are still alive and so are my siblings. I had a miscarriage before my children were born. ![]() My grandparents passed away during my life, my uncle in the passed year. IntroductionĮven though I am approaching my middle age years, I have not yet had the experience of a great loss. Winner of the 2018 Michael Printz Award, We Are Okay, take the reader on a journey of loss, grief, friendship and how do deal with betrayal. It is during one of these flashbacks that Marin discovers a deep betrayal by her grandfather. As a narrator, Marin goes back and forth between the present in the cold New York winter, and her life before her grandfather passed. Mabel comes to visit Marin and LaCour shows the reader both the complexity of their relationship and the deep sadness that Marin feels. ![]() ![]() Marin is far from her California home, in New York, but has also completely severed ties with her dear friend, Mabel. His passing is worsened by the fact that she has lived with him her whole life, since her mother died in a surfing accident when she was a toddler. Have you ever lost someone close to you? In the novel, We Are Okay, by Nina LaCour, the narrator Marin is deep in grief over the death of her grandfather. ![]()
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