Mathilda Savitch Book

A fiercely funny and touching debut novel about a young girl trying to find out the truth behind her sisterâ??s death I have a sister who died. Did I tell you this already? I did but you donâ??t remember, you didnâ??t understand the code . . . She died a year ago, but in my mind sometimes itâ??s five minutes. In the morning sometimes it hasnâ??t even happened yet. For a second Iâ??m confused, but then it all comes back. It happens again.Fear doesnâ??t come naturally to Mathilda Savitch. She prefers to look right at the things nobody else can bring themselves to mention: for example, the fact that her beloved older sister is dead, pushed in front of a train by a man still on the loose. Her grief-stricken parents have basically been sleepwalking ever since, and it is Mathildaâ??s sworn mission to shock them back to life. Her strategy? Being bad.Mathilda decides sheâ??s going to figure out what lies behind the catastrophe. She starts sleuthing through her sisterâ??s most secret possessionsâ??e-mails, clothes, notebooks, whatever her determination and craftiness can ferret out. More troubling, she begins to apply some of her older sisterâ??s magical charisma and powers of seduction to the unraveling situations around her. In a storyline that thrums with hints of ancient myth, Mathilda has to risk a great dealâ??in fact, has to leave behind everything she lovesâ??in order to discover the truth.Mathilda Savitch bursts with unforgettably imagined details: impossible crushes, devastating humiliations, the way you can hate and love your family at the same moment, the times when you and your best friend are so weak with laughter that you canâ??t breathe. Startling, funny, touching, odd, truthful, page-turning, and, in the end, heartbreaking, Mathilda Savitch is an extraordinary debut. Once you make the acquaintance of Mathilda Savitch, you will never forget her.Read More