We Are Okay

Marin left California for college in New York with almost nothing and stopped speaking to the people who knew her before. Distance has not made the final weeks of her old life easier to understand. As winter break empties her dormitory, she prepares for a visit from Mabel, the friend and former girlfriend she has kept at arm's length. Their reunion brings affection, hurt and unanswered questions into a space Marin has made deliberately solitary. Facing Mabel also means facing the grief she has tried to contain by saying very little. This closely focused young-adult novel follows the uneasy movement between withdrawal and connection, asking what it takes to let another person witness a loss that has changed everything.