Sadie

"In Sadie, Courtney Summers imitates a Serial-style true crime podcast with such pitch perfection that her publishers actually produced segments of it. The book — which alternates between transcripts of this high-brow podcast about the murder of a teen girl and the disappearance of her big sister, Sadie Hunter, and chapters narrated by Sadie herself — absolutely merits such care. It’s a dark, crushingly beautiful story about the costs of being a young woman on the margins, the way addiction ravages a family and the devastating impact of abuse. Sadie is both a book and a character you won’t soon forget."