Her story takes us with her on her search, two years later, for the truth.ĭiscussion: Ordinarily I try to eschew books about rich kids, but this one is by E. But when Cady fell for Gat, she began to listen.Īnd then, when Cady was 15, something happened on the island, something bad so bad that even Cady doesn’t know what it was. He tried to raise the social consciousness of the others, but they were on the island to have fun, and regularly pooh-poohed his efforts at serious conversation. In addition, he was Indian, and he was aware of the unspoken censure of the older Sinclairs, who, he thought, must have compared him to Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights. Gat was the only one among them who did not live a life of privilege when he wasn’t on the island, and he felt the class difference acutely. “One day I looked at Gat, lying in the Clairmont hammock with a book, and he seemed, well, like he was mine. In the summer they were fourteen, things changed between Cady and Gat: The four teens who hung out together each summer were called “The Liars” by the family, and included Cady, her cousins Johnny and Mirren, and one of the aunt’s nephews by marriage, Gat Patil. This story is narrated by Cadence (“Cady”) Sinclair Eastman, now 17, and concerns the summer two years prior, which Cady spent on the private island off the coast of Massachusetts owned by her wealthy family, the Sinclairs. Note: There are no spoilers in this review.
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