Nina LaCour

An achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship, We Are Okay is an acclaimed best book of 2017! A TODAY Show Must-Read Book - A Boston Globe Best Book of the Year - A Seventeen Best Book of the Year - A News & Observer Best Book of the Year - A Booklist Editors' Choice selection - A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year - A Bustle Best Book of the Year - A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year "Short, poetic and gorgeously written. . . . The world LaCour creates is fragile but profoundly humane." --The New York Times Book Review "A beautiful, devastating piece of art. . . . An extraordinary work." --Bookpage You go through life thinking there's so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that's been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart. An intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you love. Praise for We Are Okay "Nina LaCour treats her emotions so beautifully and with such empathy." --Bustle ? "Exquisite." --Kirkus ? "LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss, bewilderment, and emotional paralysis . . . raw and beautiful." --Booklist ? "Beautifully crafted . . . . A quietly moving, potent novel." --SLJ ? "A moving portrait of a girl struggling to rebound after everything she's known has been thrown into disarray." --Publishers Weekly ?"Bittersweet and hopeful . . . poetic and skillfully crafted." --Shelf Awareness "So lonely and beautiful that I could hardly breathe. This is a perfect book." --Stephanie Perkins, bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss "As beautiful as the best memories, as sad as the best songs, as hopeful as your best dreams." --Siobhan Vivian, bestselling author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World "You can feel every peak and valley of Marin's emotional journey on your skin, in your gut. Beautifully written, heartfelt, and deeply real." --Adi Alsaid, author of Never Always Sometimes and Let's Get Lost

Nina LaCour's award-winning, achingly beautiful novel is now available in paperback! -Includes a new foreword by Nicola Yoon, #1 bestselling author of The Sun is Also a Star and Everything, Everything- Winner of the Michael L. Printz Award "Short, poetic and gorgeously written." -The New York Times Book Review "A beautiful, devastating piece of art." -Bookpage You go through life thinking there's so much you need. . . . Until you leave with only your phone, your wallet, and a picture of your mother. Marin hasn't spoken to anyone from her old life since the day she left everything behind. No one knows the truth about those final weeks. Not even her best friend Mabel. But even thousands of miles away from the California coast, at college in New York, Marin still feels the pull of the life and tragedy she's tried to outrun. Now, months later, alone in an emptied dorm for winter break, Marin waits. Mabel is coming to visit and Marin will be forced to face everything that's been left unsaid and finally confront the loneliness that has made a home in her heart. An intimate whisper that packs an indelible punch, We Are Okay is Nina LaCour at her finest. This gorgeously crafted and achingly honest portrayal of grief will leave you urgent to reach across any distance to reconnect with the people you love. Praise for We Are Okay "Nina LaCour treats her emotions so beautifully and with such empathy." --Bustle ? "Exquisite." --Kirkus ? "LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss, bewilderment, and emotional paralysis . . . raw and beautiful." --Booklist ? "Beautifully crafted . . . . A quietly moving, potent novel." --SLJ ? "A moving portrait of a girl struggling to rebound after everything she's known has been thrown into disarray." --Publishers Weekly ?"Bittersweet and hopeful . . . poetic and skillfully crafted." --Shelf Awareness "So lonely and beautiful that I could hardly breathe. This is a perfect book." --Stephanie Perkins, bestselling author of Anna and the French Kiss "As beautiful as the best memories, as sad as the best songs, as hopeful as your best dreams." --Siobhan Vivian, bestselling author of The Last Boy and Girl in the World "You can feel every peak and valley of Marin's emotional journey on your skin, in your gut. Beautifully written, heartfelt, and deeply real." --Adi Alsaid, author of Never Always Sometimes and Let's Get Lost

Najlepšia tínedžerská kniha roka 2018! Príbeh o strate a vysporiadaní sa s minulosťou, o láske, rodine a druhých šanciach. Marin odišla z domu na druhý koniec Štátov len s mobilom vo vrecku. V deň, keď sa utopil jej starý otec, ktorý ju vychovával. Marin sa rozhodla stráviť Vianoce vo vyľudnenom internáte, musí ešte pretrpieť trojdňovú návštevu bývalej kamarátky, ktorej neodpovedala na stovky esemesiek ani desiatky telefonátov. Tri dni osamote v snehovej víchrici, kde sa nedá pred otázkami ani pravdou ujsť.

A modern ghost story about trauma and survival, Watch Over Me is the much-anticipated new novel from the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay Mila is used to being alone. Maybe that's why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. But she hadn't known about the ghosts. Newly graduated from high school, Mila has aged out of the foster care system. So when she's offered a teaching job and a place to live on an isolated part of the Northern California coast, she immediately accepts. Maybe she will finally find a new home-a real home. The farm is a refuge, but it's also haunted by the past. And Mila's own memories are starting to rise to the surface. Nina LaCour, the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay, delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me about trauma and survival, chosen family and rebirth.

Najlepšia tínedžerská kniha roka 2018! Ako by vyzeral tvoj život, keby si jedného dňa odišla z domu na druhý koniec sveta len s mobilom vo vrecku? Marin to urobila. V deň, keď sa utopil jej starý otec, ktorý ju vychovával, sa otočila San Franciscu chrbtom. Odletela na univerzitu do New Yorku a s nikým z rodného mesta viac neprehovorila. Zo strachu? Z hanby? Alebo utiekla pred smútkom? Blížia sa však zimné prázdniny, a hoci sa Marin rozhodla stráviť Vianoce vo vyľudnenom internáte, musí ešte pretrpieť trojdňovú návštevu bývalej najlepšej kamarátky Mabel. Za tie mesiace jej neodpovedala na stovky esemesiek ani desiatky telefonátov. Čakajú ju tri dni plné spomínania na svoje staré ja. Tri dni prežívania toho posledného leta na Západnom pobreží. Tri dni osamote v snehovej víchrici, kde sa nedá pred otázkami ani pravdou ujsť.

Celý život máte pocit, že toho strašně moc potřebujete. A pak odjedete jenom s mobilem, peněženkou a fotkou svojí mámy. Od té doby, co Marina nechala celý svůj život za sebou, s nikým ze své minulosti nemluvila. Dokonce ani její nejlepší kamarádka Mabel neví pravdu o tom, co se během několika posledních týdnů stalo. Ale přestože je na univerzitě v New Yorku, tisíce kilometrů od domova, stále nemůže zapomenout na svůj domov a tragédii, před kterou se snažila utéct. Teď zůstává Marin v celém kampusu sama. Brzy přijede na návštěvu Mabel a Marin se bude muset vypořádat se vším, čím se tak dlouho trápila.

When Sara Foster runs away from home at sixteen, she leaves behind not only the losses that have shattered her world but the girl she once was, capable of trust and intimacy. Years later, in Los Angeles, she is a sought-after bartender, renowned as much for her brilliant cocktails as for the mystery that clings to her. Across the city, Emilie Dubois is in a holding pattern. In her seventh year and fifth major as an undergraduate, she yearns for the beauty and community her Creole grandparents cultivated but is unable to commit. On a whim, she takes a job arranging flowers at the glamorous restaurant Yerba Buena and embarks on an affair with the married owner. When Sara catches sight of Emilie one morning at Yerba Buena, their connection is immediate. But the damage both women carry, and the choices they have made, will pull them apart again and again. At once exquisite and expansive, astonishing in its humanity and heart, Yerba Buena is a love story about two women finding their way in the world.

A modern ghost story about trauma and survival, Watch Over Me is the much-anticipated new novel from the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay Mila is used to being alone. Maybe that's why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this remote place, among the flowers and the fog and the crash of waves far below. But she hadn't known about the ghosts. Newly graduated from high school, Mila has aged out of the foster care system. So when she's offered a teaching job and a place to live on an isolated part of the Northern California coast, she immediately accepts. Maybe she will finally find a new home—a real home. The farm is a refuge, but it's also haunted by the past. And Mila's own memories are starting to rise to the surface. Nina LaCour, the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay, delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me about trauma and survival, chosen family and rebirth.