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Monday's Not Coming: A Novel
Scris de Tiffany D. Jackson
Povestit de Imani Parks
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From the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson, comes a gripping new novel perfect for fans of E. Lockhart and Gillian Flynn about the mystery of one teenage girl's disappearance and the traumatic effects of the truth.
Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn't turn up for the first day of school, Claudia's worried.
When she doesn't show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday wouldn't just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. Not after last year's rumors and not with her grades on the line. Now Claudia needs her best—and only—friend more than ever. But Monday's mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday's sister April is even less help.
As Claudia digs deeper into her friend's disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she's gone?
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Monday's Not Coming: A Novel
Scris de Tiffany D. Jackson
Povestit de Imani Parks
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From the critically acclaimed author of Allegedly, Tiffany D. Jackson, comes a gripping new novel perfect for fans of E. Lockhart and Gillian Flynn about the mystery of one teenage girl's disappearance and the traumatic effects of the truth.
Monday Charles is missing, and only Claudia seems to notice. Claudia and Monday have always been inseparable—more sisters than friends. So when Monday doesn't turn up for the first day of school, Claudia's worried.
When she doesn't show for the second day, or second week, Claudia knows that something is wrong. Monday wouldn't just leave her to endure tests and bullies alone. Not after last year's rumors and not with her grades on the line. Now Claudia needs her best—and only—friend more than ever. But Monday's mother refuses to give Claudia a straight answer, and Monday's sister April is even less help.
As Claudia digs deeper into her friend's disappearance, she discovers that no one seems to remember the last time they saw Monday. How can a teenage girl just vanish without anyone noticing that she's gone?
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Utterly heartbreaking YA about a enduring friendship bond between two Washington, D.C. girls and bullying/abuse. The time frame jumps of the chapters (Before, After, etc.) confused me at first, but I understood their important significance at the end. Although the main character is mainly portrayed as an 8th grader on the cusp of high school, I definitely would only recommend this to older teens due to language and themes.
Rating: 4Claudia, who tells the story, is an only child who lives with her parents in a middle-class black neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Her best friend in the world, Monday, lives with her single mother and three siblings in some nearby black housing projects for those in poverty.Claudia spends every summer with her grandmother down south. As the book opens, she is returning home for the school year, a little concerned because Monday never wrote her during the summer like she has in the past. Then school starts, and Monday isn't there either.It seems that no matter who Claudia asks or where she turns, no one is particularly concerned the Monday seems to have vanished from the face of the Earth. But she is determined to solve the mystery and find her friend.A few notes about this book, without giving away too much. It's unusual in that the protagonists are 13 years old, in a book aimed at teens. This is definitely not YA fare.There are parts that are particularly grim and perhaps shocking.The timeline is confusing. It bounces back and forth, and the chapter titles (used multiple times) are "The Before," "The After," "Before the Before," "After the After," and a few very short chapters the titles of which are the name of a month. I had a little trouble keeping up with it all, but I'm not sure how else this story could have been told. Before and after ~what~ you may ask. And that is something that won't be made clear until the last 50 pages or so, where you will find that some of what you have been assuming about the story isn't what you thought.Well written, intricately plotted, with a fairly realistic (I assume) look at life in poverty stricken housing projects. The intended audience is probably black teen girls, but this white adult man found it powerful and moving.
Rating: 5I just could not get into this book. The different timelines were confusing and jumped around too much so that I never felt really comfortable reading it.From the start I had an inkling about Monday's disappearance and, sadly, I was proved right at the end. I didn't like the protagonist, Claudia, despite her determination to find her best friend, Monday. I admired her dedication but I never felt connected to her, and she felt much younger than she actually was.While "Monday's Not Coming" was dark and heart-breaking, the mystery was lackluster and the execution mediocre.
Rating: 2Claudia and Monday have been best friends since forever. Monday has been the one constant in Claudia's life since she could remember and for the first time ever they were going to be separated for months while Claudia was away visiting family. They both counted down the days until the duo could reunite on the first day of school. But then Claudia comes back and Monday doesn't reach out. Claudia waits for Monday so they could brave a new school year together but Monday never shows. She asks her teachers what happened to Monday and no one seems to know. She asks Monday's mom where her best friend is and she's told her best friend left her without saying goodbye. No one wants to give her answers she desperately needs and school isn't the same without her friend. It's a heartbreaking story told in flashbacks and flashforwards. The present day blends in with all of those other moments to weave the story of friendship and tragedy. Claudia was a girl who needed her best friend to help her navigate the drama of life as a middle schooler and now as a high schooler she looks back to see where it all went wrong. It's a story that seems so crazy that it would never happen but it does. Thousands of young black girls are lost and it doesn't matter how. The tragedy happens when someone reaches out to find the truth only to be ignored or pushed aside because they don't have the "time" or "resources" to investigate the case of a young black girl who "probably ran away from home" without giving a second thought to the fact that maybe she needs help. Even though it's a good lesson for everyone this book doesn't focus solely on that, it shows us Claudia's past as a lost teenager and then her growth as she finds help and slowly recovers from her trauma because what happened to Monday Charles didn't only affect Monday Charles.
Rating: 5This was a Great read I didn't know it was a young adult book,I picked it because of the title. So I was reading it from a mother's perspective and I could relate to Claudia's mother. It was so sad at some points of the book, I can sympathize with her losing her best friend it could be devastating especially for her because she was an only child.
Rating: 5Great book but left a lot of loose ends that I want to know the answers to.
Rating: 5
Beautifully done. This has been one of my favorite audiobooks to listen to with adolescents
Rating: 5
This was a very engaging story it kept me on edge. You kind of a knew what happened but just had to keep reading to find out how it happened. I would have never guessed at the way it turned out and what was going on the whole time.
Rating: 5Compelling. Once I started listening I couldn’t stop. Absolutely great storyteller.
Rating: 5
best book I've read in awhile,
I definitely would recommend it.
Rating: 5I definitely would recommend it.
I want to fight just about every adult in this book. I’m terrified that Monday could be any young person I know.
Rating: 5
Beautifully written. This text dealt with real issues teens experience. The culture is so intertwined into the story from the lingo to popular local music. I rearely feel my heart drop when I read novels. This one hurt.
Rating: 5
"Painful but necessary"
It took me four months to read this book. It's so painful to read about a Black children being overlooked, abused, under-served, and forgotten. The amount of people who refused to care, to look, to protect Monday and August is disgusting and demoralizing. I already knew this happened in theory but reading an individual account isn't the same as abstract statistics. I'm glad this book exists because statistics are escapable. Stories stick.
The plot twist is out of this world and you will NOT see it coming. The one reason I gave it a 4.50 and not a straight 5.0 is that the "Before" and "After" separation was confusing (which maybe was the point) but I never figured out exactly what the separation was (but that might be explained by the plot twist so it's hard to retroactively assess it).
The characters in this book are amazing. Tiffany Jackson does a great job with them-- even the ones you hate, hate, HATE are perfect. Claudia and Monday are perfect in their friendship, Claudia's parents are perfect in their guardianship, Marcus is THE BEST fullstop. Everyone is just super real and they all play their part in the story, no matter how frustrating or admirable we think they are. Even though it's a plot-driven book and you don't see the last threads coming together until the very end, it's the characters' motivations that resolve the narrative.
The last thing I'll say (because it's still just difficult to think about and process) is that the treatment of trauma is the most understated and ah-mazing I've seen in ya contemporary fiction. Claudia's PTSD is legitimately hard to see at first and once we do see it, it's shattering. Truly, you never know how trauma will show itself but a solid support system is everything and the fact that Claudia has it is one of the things I'm most grateful for in the book.
Monday's Not Coming is one of the hardest books I've ever read and I'll probably never be able to read it again. But you should read it at least once.
Rating: 5It took me four months to read this book. It's so painful to read about a Black children being overlooked, abused, under-served, and forgotten. The amount of people who refused to care, to look, to protect Monday and August is disgusting and demoralizing. I already knew this happened in theory but reading an individual account isn't the same as abstract statistics. I'm glad this book exists because statistics are escapable. Stories stick.
The plot twist is out of this world and you will NOT see it coming. The one reason I gave it a 4.50 and not a straight 5.0 is that the "Before" and "After" separation was confusing (which maybe was the point) but I never figured out exactly what the separation was (but that might be explained by the plot twist so it's hard to retroactively assess it).
The characters in this book are amazing. Tiffany Jackson does a great job with them-- even the ones you hate, hate, HATE are perfect. Claudia and Monday are perfect in their friendship, Claudia's parents are perfect in their guardianship, Marcus is THE BEST fullstop. Everyone is just super real and they all play their part in the story, no matter how frustrating or admirable we think they are. Even though it's a plot-driven book and you don't see the last threads coming together until the very end, it's the characters' motivations that resolve the narrative.
The last thing I'll say (because it's still just difficult to think about and process) is that the treatment of trauma is the most understated and ah-mazing I've seen in ya contemporary fiction. Claudia's PTSD is legitimately hard to see at first and once we do see it, it's shattering. Truly, you never know how trauma will show itself but a solid support system is everything and the fact that Claudia has it is one of the things I'm most grateful for in the book.
Monday's Not Coming is one of the hardest books I've ever read and I'll probably never be able to read it again. But you should read it at least once.
It was great! This is a must read. Trigger warning: it mentions child abuse.
Rating: 5i am SOBBING! everyone and their mothers need to read this book
Rating: 5This is much too mature for me to recommend to students. It contains profanity and some references to sexual activity. It is however a gripping and disturbing story of how someone can go unnoticed in a community. This will stay with me a long time.
Rating: 44.5 stars. I had a feeling I was going to love this book and it was going to wreck me. Both things happened and now I need to read more by Tiffany D. Jackson!
Rating: 4
Heartbreaking but well written. A little long winded at times but the ending while sad played out differently than expected.
Rating: 5
Very good read! I love that Claudia never stopped looking for her friend. It’s a story about childhood trauma which is something that most of us experienced in our youth.
Rating: 5I enjoyed this audiobook so much. Definitely a book which made me think a lot and stayed with me even after finishing it. Even now after some time, I'm still thinking of this book and can say it's one of the best books if read so far in 2018.
Rating: 5Claudia gets back after a summer with her grandma and her best friend is not around, school starts and she's still not around. The book jumps to multiple time lines for the story, The Before, The After, and a couple of time periods before The Before. It takes a long time to figure out what has happened to Monday. Claudia is persistent and struggling with her own growing up, learning disabilities. Its clear that there have been things that Claudia didn't see, but her dogged persistence helps solve the emptiness left when Monday is no longer there.
Rating: 4This was an amazing piece of literature. I literally couldn’t sleep until I finished listening to it. The author does a fantastic job drawing you into the story and not letting you go until the very end; where you find out exactly what happened!! We will definitely appreciate the “build-up”...
Rating: 5I thought the author telling the end of the book at the beginning was going to give it all away, but the twists and the reflections kept me wanting more... Thank you
Rating: 5
I loved this book because of the suspense up until the end. It went between different spaces of time, forcing the reader to really pay attention. It's a great book
Rating: 5Was a very good book a little Emotional but good
Rating: 5
A very haunting tail . It brought back memories of a childhood friend., she too had secrets and bruises and scars. My friend never forgave me for turning her in. But I can happily say I saw her again all grown up. Miss. Johnson thank you for taking away my feelings of guilt. This could have happened to my childhood friend . To Hidie I hope the rest of your life was a good one. B.
Rating: 5