“I was okay just a moment ago. I will learn how to be okay again.”

A couple of months ago Marin left her birthplace, San Francisco, after a traumatic summer with nothing more than a phone, a wallet, and a picture of her mother. But now it’s winter break and everyone is packing up to go to their families except for Marin. The only one she will see before she will be left alone in an emptied dorm is the visit from her friend Mabel.

We Are Okay is a book that will make you feel not okay for a while and explore feelings of grief. It will make you wonder what happend to this girl. A girl that clearly has been so heartbroken that she abandoned everything she knew and became an empty shell of what she was. And slowly on you will gather more information through Marins flashbacks what has happened.

Despite the fact that this book deals with grief, depression, identity crisis, the struggle of finding yourself and feelings of abandonment, it wasn’t extremely depressing to read. Yes, it made me on the verge of tears multiple times, but it also felt hopeful. It made me believe in the strength of friendship, in the ones who will scrape you off the floor when you need it the most and the ones who will just hold your hand when you feel you are falling. And because of it, this became a new favorite. If you decide to read it, I suggest looking into CWs.