The book is a fantastic slow-burn, and not necessarily the straightforward thriller or mystery you might assume it would be from reading the plot or watching the splashy trailer of Hulu’s new TV adaptation, premiering April 26.īut, in the end, everything in the story really does come back to rebellious, 18-year-old Alison, who is discovered dead during a family trip to the (fictitious, titular) Caribbean island of Saint X. Alexis Schaitkin’s brilliant, atmospheric mystery novel, Saint X, hinges around one main question: what really happened to Alison Thomas? Of course it ends up being so much more than that, combining elements from coming-of-age stories with eye-opening critiques of the salacious nature of true crime coverage and the families shattered by it, while skewering white privilege and capitalism, and.
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