It’s not enough that Sadie suffers from a profound stutter, is an abuse victim, or is merely a “secondary player” in her own life – she should remember her manners! The book questions how we respond to girls on the fringes of society people demand niceness, politeness, even as they struggle profoundly. May Beth urged her to see her mother’s addiction as an illness, but this only triggers feelings of guilt for resenting the mother who neglected her. On one hand her heroine is easy to root for on the other, she’s reckless, stubborn and doesn’t make ‘likeable’ choices, rushing headfirst into confrontations with male adversaries. In her younger sister, she found a place to pour her love Mattie’s death drives her to take a lonely, dangerous path to revenge.Ĭourtney Summers has a knack for writing complex, ‘unlikeable’ (British spelling!) female protagonists. With their mother consumed by drug addiction, it fell to her to care for Mattie. The chapters switch from transcripts of West’s True Crime-style podcasts, to Sadie’s own narration. Although radio star West McCray questions whether there’s a story in yet another runaway, he’s persuaded to follow the missing girl’s trail by her surrogate grandmother, May Beth.īut as West investigates, he realizes that he must find Sadie – before it’s too late. Following the murder of her 13-year-old sister Mattie, Sadie Hunter, 19, vanishes from their Colorado trailer park.
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