With lush descriptions of color and other analogies, she establishes Claudia’s love for art and emotional sensitivity, simultaneously connecting this way of viewing the world with Claudia’s dyslexia. She utilizes local colloquialisms and the traditions of go-go music to illustrate the D.C. To fully understand the order of events, I recommend that first-time readers take notes.Īside from the confusing timeline, Jackson otherwise writes this novel phenomenally. Still, even after this reveal, as I tried to sort the two timelines, everything snapped back together like magnets that refused to detach. Near the end of the novel, the story reveals that the author uses this narrative structure to highlight the long-term impact Monday’s disappearance has had on Claudia’s mental state. Meanwhile, “The Before” and “The After” often meld into one timeline, the only immediate differences being the latter’s foreshadowing to Monday’s fate and inclusion of Claudia’s journal entries. The first two of these timelines are the easiest to follow, both taking place however many years before Monday’s disappearance. In Monday’s Not Coming, the author divides the chapters into four timelines: “One Year Before the Before”, “Two Years Before the Before”, “The Before”, and “The After”. However, how she executes these stories can make or break her novels.

Jackson excels at creating intriguing premises that comment on real-life tragedies and systemic issues. Trigger warnings for mentions of drug use, child abuse and neglect, domestic abuse, sexual assault and verbal sexualization of minors, homophobic comments and bullying, mentions of miscarriages, slut-shaming, and PTSD. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she’s gone? Review (Minor Spoilers): But Monday’s mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday’s sister April is even less help.Īs Claudia digs deeper into her friend’s disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. Now Claudia needs her best-and only-friend more than ever. Not after last year’s rumors and not with her grades on the line. Monday wouldn’t just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. When she doesn’t show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong.

So when Monday doesn’t turn up for the first day of school, Claudia’s worried. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable-more sisters than friends. Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. September 4th, 2020 – September 9th, 2020 Rating: Format:

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