You see, Sadie’s narrative is months in the past.
Half the book is composed of transcriptions of a true came podcast called The Girls.
Dear lord, just thinking about it breaks me all over again. All the more so when Sadie’s narrative is also full of a heartbreaking mix of hope, love, devotion and sadness as she connects with people who could care about her if it wasn’t too late. Nobody saved these girls, nobody took good care of them and it is painful to read about those broken lives. Sadie herself had been abused by the same man – one of her mother’s former no-good boyfriends – and that story is fucked up, awful and too sad for words. Mattie was Sadie’s whole world, the person she loved the most, her little sister she effectively brought up since their mother was absent most of the time. This is a dark, on-the-road revenge narrative: Sadie says very clearly in the beginning that she will kill him when she finds him. Half the book is narrated by Sadie, it is her perspective as we follow her on her mission to find the man she believes has murdered her sister, determined to find the killer the police never found (nobody cares about girls from the wrong side of the tracks, right? Girls go missing all the time). The main story is deceptively simple: a 19-year-old girl, Sadie, goes missing after her beloved sister Mattie is found murdered.
It is also a book that does not pull any punches, it is very difficult to read as it deals with child abuse and child death and it does not have a happy ending – at least I didn’t read the ending as such – your mileage may vary, caveats and all that. Let me start by saying that Sadie is a very good, impeccably written and gorgeous book like only Courtney Summers can write. I actually read Sadie by Courtney Summers a few months ago and have been thinking how to write about it ever since. Sadie is propulsive and harrowing and will keep you riveted until the last page. He starts his own podcast as he tracks Sadie’s journey, trying to figure out what happened, hoping to find her before it’s too late.Ĭourtney Summers has written the breakout book of her career. When West McCray?a radio personality working on a segment about small, forgotten towns in America?overhears Sadie’s story at a local gas station, he becomes obsessed with finding the missing girl. After a somewhat botched police investigation, Sadie is determined to bring her sister’s killer to justice and hits the road following a few meager clues to find him.
Growing up on her own, she’s been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated small town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water.īut when Mattie is found dead, Sadie’s entire world crumbles. And an ending you won’t be able to stop talking about. A Serial?like podcast following the clues she’s left behind.
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