SuitabookAbout a Girl
Sarah McCarry
- Reading
- As you read, pause at the discovery that changes Tally’s plans and again when Maddy enters the story. These turning points can help track how her priorities and expectations shift.
- Themes
- Identity and changing certainty: Tally begins sure of her abilities, family and future; a discovery and her experiences with Maddy challenge that ordered view. Tally’s changing view of herself is central to the story as a discovery and her experiences with Maddy unsettle her certainty.
- Family history and belonging: Tally’s adoptive family is important to her, while her absent birth mother and a musician who may connect to her past prompt a search for family truth. The search for family truth connects Tally’s origins with her sense of home and her adoptive family.
- Worth knowing
- Tally’s birth mother left soon after her birth, and family secrets and their consequences are part of the story.