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The story moved at a good pace, not having a single boring moment. The ending was quite nice, with a perfect mix of action and emotional moments, all the plot lines coming together in a really satisfying way. Mentre lo leggevo, ho pensato spesso a Truman Capote e al suo meraviglioso A sangue freddo: ma la Sebold ci porta dalla parte della vittima, sceglie ancora il punto di vista della vittima - e a me sembra una scelta difficile, ma vincente.

A lot of the story is explaining the debilitating disease and learning about how it affects his day to day life. The mystery is woven into Daniel's story. This is a gem of a novel. I've been subscribing to Will Leitch's weekly newsletters for a while now, and he's such a big-hearted writer that I had expected to love his latest book, and I did. A huge thank-you to Will Leitch, Harper, and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review! Daniel is pretty much homebound, although he can leave the house with assistance, and he has a very specific routine. He begins seeing a girl outside his house at the same time every morning who appears to be walking to class (he lives in a college town), and one day he sees her get into a car with a man. The next day the girl has made the news as having disappeared, and Daniel suddenly has to decide what to do about the knowledge he has. I was a bit nervous for this one! We've got a middle-aged white guy writing from the POV of a protagonist with a pretty specific disability (SMA, a degenerative disease*) that he doesn't share, and I wasn't familiar with Leitch as a writer, but this was the only BOTM the month it came out that interested me, so I took a chance, and I'm glad I did! I thought the whole thing was very sensitively done, and I thought Daniel ended up being a great character. SMA is something that he lives with, but he as a person is not his disease, and he has an extremely rich inner life, and a pretty rich outer one as well. He has a great caregiver, a loving mother, a job that he can do from home that supports him well, and a great best friend. He also loves the place he lives, and he has a measure of independence that makes him feel satisfied with his life.Updated 2/9/22: so the NYT article about Sebold came out and I wanted add my 2 cents. (You should read that article if you aren’t familiar but basically the man Sebold identified was exonerated 16 years later… her actual rapist is still unidentified)

La copertina della rivista New York del luglio 2015: le 35 donne che hanno pubblicamente accusato Bill Cosby di violenza. La sedia vuota è per quelle che hanno ancora troppa paura di parlare. The best thing about this story is there is NOT an unreliable narrator. You see, the main character Daniel isn’t trapped in his house due to some psychosis and he doesn’t think he sees something while in a drunken stupor. Nope. Daniel is just like you and me. He sees a missing poster and then thinks “hmmmmm, maybe I saw that girl” but also “or maybe the girl I saw just looked similar to that girl.” Also, while Daniel is housebound, it is due to a debilitating physical condition rather than agoraphobia or something else that could render him housebound. And although there were a couple of times where I was screaming at my Kindle . . . . For readers of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and Nothing to See Here, a first novel as suspenseful and funny as it is moving, the unforgettable story of a fiercely resilient young man living with a physical disability, and his efforts to solve a mystery unfolding right outside his door. Daniel has Type 2 SMA, a degenerative disease that I’ll let him explain to you. He lives alone (but with help from some great characters) in Athens, Georgia, which is a college town. One morning he sees a young woman get in a car with a man, and soon she is reported missing. Did Daniel witness a kidnapping? One of the symptoms of his advanced SMA is difficulty communicating; how will he make known what he saw? E lei dice che bisogna imparare a pronunciare la parola, senza averne vergogna, senza averne paura.

Marissa Stapley

As said earlier, I did appreciate learning about SMA, but I was aggravated by the multitude of passages telling us how society treated Daniel so differently and poorly. It felt like a generic after-school special about inclusion. Part of me agreed with everything that was being said. I mean, who wouldn’t agree that we need to be a more tolerant society? Who doesn’t need to self-reflect on their own privilege? Told in dual timelines, we learn about how she grew up with a father who was always looking for the next mark, and we see her struggle with hiding from the law and trying to turn her life around. Anthony Broadwater served 16 years in prison for the crime, and was released in 1999. He was exonerated in 2021 after a judge found serious issues with the initial conviction. [4] [5] [6] Rape and trial [ edit ]