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Mila is used to being alone. Maybe thats 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 hadnt known about the ghosts.
Newly graduated from high school, Mila has aged out of the foster-care system. So when shes offered a job and a place to live on an isolated part of the Californian coast, she immediately accepts. Maybe she will finally find a new homea real home. The farm is a refuge, but its also haunted by the past. And Milas own memories are starting to rise to the surface.
Nina LaCour, the awardwinning author of We Are Okay, delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me, a modern ghost story about trauma and survival, chosen family and rebirth.
Nina LaCour is the author of the widely acclaimed novels Hold Still, The Disenchantments, Everything Leads to You, You Know Me Well (with David Levithan) and We Are Okay. She is also the host of Keeping a Notebook: A Podcast on Writing and founder of the Slow Novel Lab. Nina lives with her family in San Francisco, California.
'This book is so presentient about the times we suddenly find ourselves in that I could feel the presence of my own ghost as I read it. Every sentence is a gift. Nina LaCour writes an enchanted world in which the resonances come from us, from our own need to mend whats broken inside us. Watch Over Me is a fairytale for who we are now, showing us a way to live in this world. Penni Russon