Mathilda Savitch - Audio CD - Unabridged Author:Victor Lodato, Cassandra Campbell (Narrator) The young Mathilda Savitch is furious, awkward, and tender. The book Mathilda Savitch is a compelling must-listen and the debut of an extraordinary novelistic talent. — In his fiction debut, Victor Lodato wholly inhabits the constantly-shifting world of a 12-year-old girl contending with a family tragedy. Mathilda Savitch, as she admits ... more »with gusto right from the start, wants to be bad ("and why not?"). She says it's to make things more interesting, but she also wants to shake her parents out of their grieving stupor. Mathilda, too, still reels from her older sister's mysterious and violent death at the hands of man yet to be brought to justice, and so she decides to do a little sleuthing of her own, digging through her sister's email and in drawers, looking for clues. The world Mathilda uncovers is a dark and confusing one -- but so is the world she lives in already. She has to worry about everything from terrorism to unrequited crushes.
Lodato's story is as unsettled as this adolescent girl's identity and understanding of the world, making this a somewhat disorienting read. But Mathilda will win readers' hearts, and her funny, frightening, touching story of discovery will keep the pages turning.