Watch Over Me, Nina LaCour
Watch Over Me, Nina LaCour
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Watch Over Me

Author: Nina LaCour

Narrator: Jorjeana Marie

Unabridged: 5 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/15/2020


Synopsis

From the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay comes a “gripping” (Kirkus Reviews) modern ghost story about an orphan who accepts a remote teaching job in order to try and find her place in the world.

“A painfully compelling gem from a masterful creator.”—Booklist, starred review

“Moving, unsettling, and full of atmospheric beauty.”—School Library Journal, starred review

Mila is used to being alone.

Maybe that’s why she said yes. Yes to a second chance in this secluded 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.

About The Author

Nina LaCour is the author of the widely acclaimed Hold Still, The Disenchantments, Everything Leads to You, and the Michael L. Printz Award winner We Are Okay. She is also the coauthor, with David Levithan, of You Know Me Well. Formerly a bookseller and high school English teacher, she now writes and parents full-time. A San Francisco Bay Area native, Nina lives with her family in San Francisco, California.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Cindy on March 06, 2022

This is my second Nina LaCour book, and I’m finding that her writing has a quiet and sad charm to it that works whenever I pick it up at the right time in my life. Fortunately, this is one of those times. I read this during a depressive episode with a huge chunk of it during a day where I was detoxi......more

Goodreads review by Kat on September 04, 2020

***ARC provided by the publisher*** a quiet, rural contemporary fantasy about ghosts & loneliness. it was definitely solid...i mean, nina lacour is the queen of writing sad girls and emo times, how could it be anything but? the way this book handles trauma and finding family was well done. i just wis......more

Goodreads review by Nilufer on July 19, 2022

Sometimes sensitive, delicate, poignant hearted people can see things through with their third eye, connecting with restless souls to resonate with their own loneliness, grief, sadness, abandonment. Have you ever felt like there is a big rock sit on your chest preventing you to breathe properly and......more

Goodreads review by emma on August 07, 2021

did you feel that? that was the universe righting itself. (i'm buddy reading a book i read literally a few months ago with lily) (rounding down upon reread, still 3.5) ---------------- A book by Nina LaCour featuring ghosts, loneliness, found family, trauma recovery, forgiveness, and friendship? It's more......more

Goodreads review by daph pink ♡ on November 21, 2021

Biggest meh of the year.......more


Quotes

YALSA Best Fiction of the Year • Kirkus Reviews Best Books of the Year • New York Public Library Best Books of the Year • Chicago Public Library Best Books of the Year • BuzzFeed Best of the Year

“The sense of place is strong, and readers will be transported to the rocky, coastal hills shrouded in fog and full of secrets. . . . Mila’s journey to reclaim herself and find independence is tense and powerful.”Kirkus Reviews, starred review

“LaCour presents a ghost story that is moving, unsettling, and full of atmospheric beauty with foggy, coastal air that hangs heavy in the pages . . . 100% LaCour at its core.”School Library Journal, starred review

“LaCour’s portrait of a young woman yearning to belong and facing her past while navigating the liminal space between childhood and adulthood brims with tender moments and sensory details.”Publishers Weekly, starred review

“LaCour’s writing is lyrical and atmospheric, both in capturing the natural setting of the story and in exploring the dark recesses of her characters’ grief, guilt, and psychic pain. . . . An empowering story of one young woman’s quest to rediscover the part of herself she has left behind and to become independent.”—The Horn Book