Hold Still by Nina LaCour

Hold Still by Nina LaCour, was the debut novel for this Printz Award winning author.  After 10 years, it got a new cover and was rereleased.  This book was beautiful and heartbreaking and full of hope.  It is a novel that will make you feel the pain that the main character, Caitlin, so often feels since she lost her best friend to suicide.  You will long for the healing that she so desperately needs and find hope in the friendships the she struggles to cultivate.  Nina LaCour has given us a novel that intimately details that pain that many feel as a result of suicide and the resilience that comes with finding a way through that pain.  This novel will stick with you long after you have finished the last beautiful words. 
 

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A beautiful new edition of the stunning debut novel by Nina LaCour, award-winning author of We Are Okay
 
“Hold Still may be the truest depiction of the aching, gaping hole left in the wake of a suicide that I’ve ever read. A haunting and hopeful book about loss, love, and redemption.” – Gayle Forman, #1 bestselling author of If I Stay and I Have Lost My Way
 
That night Ingrid told Caitlin, I’ll go wherever you go. But by dawn Ingrid, and her promise, were gone.

Ingrid’s suicide immobilizes Caitlin, leaving her unsure of her place in a new life she hardly recognizes. A life without the art, the laughter, the music, and the joy that she shared with her best friend.... But Ingrid left something behind. In words and drawings, Ingrid documented a painful farewell in her journal. Journeying through Ingrid’s final days, Caitlin fights back through unspeakable loss to find renewed hope.

Hold Still is the indelible debut that launched Nina LaCour, the award-winning author of We Are Okay. LaCour’s breakthrough novel brings the changing seasons of Caitlin’s first year without Ingrid to the page with indelible emotion and honesty.

Includes an all-new essay from the author to commemorate 10 years in print!