5/23/2023 0 Comments Sadie courtney![]() How did you keep track of the two narratives? ![]() The novel includes excerpts from a podcast hosted by West McCray, a journalist investigating Sadie’s disappearance in the present, and chapters narrated by Sadie, a few months before West McCray’s search for her. The chapters not only move between time lines but also alternate narration styles. I also wanted to explore the way we consume acts of violence against women and girls as a form of entertainment (and these acts of violence against them are often at the center of true crime stories), and the consequences. I’m fascinated by true crime, but I often wonder how well the category serves the narratives of victims who are no longer around to tell their own stories, and what the personal cost of choosing to tell those stories might be. SLJ’s starred review says, “ it’s impossible to not be drawn into this haunting thriller of a book.” Courtney Summers discusses how this book subverts the “woman in danger” trope, the podcast spawned by Sadie (Wednesday Bks., Sept. ![]() ![]() Chapters alternate between the title character, a 19-year-old trying to find her younger sister’s murderer, and a podcast based on the girls’ story, recorded months after Sadie has disappeared. The author of All the Rage, Some Girls Are, and This Is Not a Test offers another heartrending and complex YA novel about how society treats and even consumes young women. ![]()
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