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Winner of the 2018 Michael L. Printz Award - An achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship.

"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. .…

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The narrator of We Are Okay was like a siren for me. Jorjeana Marie’s voice holds the pain of the main character Marin like a tiny secret clutched in her fist and hidden from view. You want to see it so badly, but you only get glimpses as she unfolds one finger at a time.

I love the delicate unraveling of this tragic story and how Marin’s loneliness gets under your skin, so you really feel it and feel for her. Like in What to Say Next, a death is a catalyst, but how the death is used in…

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