He is, as he’s always been in our culture, the hero. We’re a culture saturated with dead girl narratives that, as Alice Bolin brilliant explores in her collection of essays Dead Girls, works not to solve the crime and understand why a girl is dead rather, they’re stories meant to prop up the white male who is uncovering the secret. West’s podcast is compelling and engaging because we know this story and we want this story. This is a book that shines a light on our culture’s obsession with dead white girls. Will West find the answers before we, as readers, know the truth?
We follow as she works to hunt down the person she believes killed her sister in order to enact revenge upon him. The second narrative is the real-time story of Sadie’s. Sadie is set up as a dual narrative one part follows West McCray, a true crime podcast host as he works to unravel the story of a girl named Sadie who, after the death of her younger sister Mattie, has gone missing from her small, impoverished town. What makes Sadie a special book is that it takes what Summers is known for and turns it up ten notches. If you love true crime podcasts and haven’t yet tuned into The Girls-a fictional crime podcast based on the book-then treat yourself now. Buzz continues to build around the book, thanks in part to the development of a podcast based off the book.
Her upcoming book Sadie, to be published September 4, has received significant buzz: along with being selected as a Book Expo America Editor’s Buzz Pick, it’s earned a slew of starred reviews and critical acclaim. YA author Courtney Summers is no stranger to this category of books, nor is she a stranger to writing the dark, the gritty, and the sometimes bleak world of being a teenage girl in today’s world.
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