_We Are Okay_ by Nina LaCour
Another Lincoln Award finalist for 2019. Just a beautiful description I guess when you spend a life riding waves-- knowing that the ocean is heartless and millions of times stronger than you are, but still trusting that you're skilled enough or brave enough or charmed enough to survive it--you become indebted to the people who don't make it. p30 We Are Okay by Nina LaCour I have only just learned how to be here. Life is paper-thin and fragile. Any sudden change could rip it wide-open. p93 We Are Okay by Nina LaCour I was given cakes and cookies and rides to school. I was given songs and dinners at a table with brass candlesticks. I was given a man with a sensitive heart and a devious sense of humor and enough skill at cards to win me a year of private college-- tuition and room and board-- and I took all of those good things and told myself they made us special. Told myself we were a family the way Mabel and Ana and Javier were, told myself that we weren't missi...