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[quote=Anonymous]I’m amazed no one has empathy for Sadie. The author did a great job fleshing out Sadie’s childhood loneliness and confusion as a kid who didn’t really fit in as well as she “should” have. She was socially awkward, an intellectual outlier (a girl in the 90s with overt, off-the-chart math-based brilliance), and of course, all the fear, confusion, guilt, and abnormality of navigating her older sister’s illness.

Yes, Sam’s childhood was also very lonely and tragically sad. And through HIS eyes, Sadie’s childhood seemed so charmed but n comparison - she had parents, a sister, money, good looks etc. But while he idolized her and thought she had everything, she was clearly suffering, too - less obviously, but no less significantly. And like Sam, Sadie’s childhood isolation and square-peg-round-hole personality stunted her emotional growth every bit as much as Sam’s did. (Evidenced by her abusive relationship with the professor in college and subsequent depression. She was always a hot mess.)

That’s part of what I loved. Sam and Sadie led parallel lives in many ways. But both were so often stuck in their own heads (and so consumed by their own long-standing, and in some ways multi-generational, sorrows) that they often couldn’t see things from the others’ point of view - even when it was glaringly obvious to us, the readers. And yet they continued to stay connected just enough to feel each other’s presence in their lives - two hurt, sad people who maybe felt a little less alone knowing the other was there. [/quote]

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