Watch over Me, by Nina LaCour
【濱海花田 療癒系鬼故事】
對始終無法融入寄養家庭的米拉來說，在高中畢業後，能去與世隔絕、最近的鄰居遠在四十五分鐘車程外的偏遠濱海農場工作，似乎是個不錯的主意，畢竟她已經習慣了孤獨。
不過那個農場有些特別，是由主人夫婦，以及他們收養的數個被不同寄養家庭拋棄的兒童組成，農場不僅提供孩子們學習新技能和體驗家庭生活的機會，也教他們如何消化過去種種悲傷，學習繼續堅持活下去。
然而住進去後米拉才知道，最特別的是，那間屋子似乎還有其他看不見的「家人」……
繼麥克普林茲獎得獎作品We Are Okay、熱門YA小說Hold Still等書之後，作者Nina LaCour這次帶來了美麗而哀傷的治癒系鬼故事Watch over me，道盡寄養兒童鮮為人知的內心世界。儘管被遺棄到杳無人煙的角落，幾顆破碎受傷的心靈卻相互扶持、成長，綻放最美的人性光彩。
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A modern ghost story about trauma and survival, Watch Over Me is the much-anticipated new novel from the Printz Award-winning author of We Are Okay
Mila is used to being alone.
Maybe that’s 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 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.
Nina LaCour, the Printz Award–winning author of We Are Okay, delivers another emotional knockout with Watch Over Me about trauma and survival, chosen family and rebirth.
