Two girls, Cassie and Julia, are the best of friends. Almost like sisters. The novel seems to play on all the events that might happen in a girl’s life, but instead of the usual way we commonly see in today’s society (such as sexually abused, raped) and how the victim is usually portrayed after the event, it takes a different role and lets women who read it view how it actually might play out. Perhaps the missing girl is not really dead. Maybe she did not get raped at all. Perhaps she just simply ran away to find her own happiness. The author instead focuses on the relationships of the girls and how they helped “create” one another.
Key Takeaways:
- In Messud’s book, the main characters are traced throughout a friendship that begins when they were toddlers.
- When Cassie disappears, Julia seeks answers to put an ending to the story of their friendship.
- Julia feels that the only redemption for Cassie is to find her in a tragic situation.
“Messud writes about that exultant, conspiratorial connection between female friends, the way we create each other.”
Read more: http://www.npr.org/2017/08/31/545777700/the-burning-girl-is-more-than-just-a-pretty-victim
Leave a Reply