Though it's clear from Matthew's opening letter to Emmy that the three siblings all survive, and that they all escape Nikki, it isn't clear how it happened-or what happened to the rest of the players. But this one hooked me from the first few pages, and I began and finished it in one go. I don't usually read a whole lot before bed-I tend to fall asleep after reading a few chapters. And so he becomes obsessed with finding the man who could be their savior. He'd had the usual "tell us if there's something wrong" spiel at school, but he worried that he and his sisters would be separated if he contacted the authorities and he'd heard nightmarish stories about foster care. Until that incident, Matthew had never seen an adult-including his father and his aunt, both of whom were well aware of Nikki's behavior-do anything other than ignore abuse. But Murdoch was still looking straight at him, and I knew-you could feel it vibrating in the air-that even though Murdoch had said he wouldn't hit him, he wanted to.
He and Callie are buying popsicles when they witness the man they will come to know as Murdoch defend a small boy from a violent father:
Matthew's chronicle begins when he is thirteen. I wonder if you really need to know exactly what happened to us-me, you, Callie-at the hands of our mother. I wonder if maybe it would be better if you never read this. I have decided to write it all down for you, and I will, but that decision doesn't keep me from having doubts.
It's a little late for me to be reading the rest of the NBA* YA nominees.Īs I write this, you are nine years old, too young to be told the full and true story of our family's past, let alone be exposed to my philosophizing about what it all meant.
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