I know what I thought was going on in the book, which is that the father was sexually abusing Evie’s older sister and possibly Evie too, and was grooming Lizzie and Evie ran away with a creepy guy in order to escape from that whole thing. I thought it was really obvious from the start but then when I got to the end of the book I couldn’t tell what Megan Abbott thought was going on. If it counts as spoilers when I do not feel satisfied that I know what the reader is supposed to understand from the final scenes of the book. In her absence, Lizzie - whose own father left the family - grows close to Evie’s father as the two of them try to piece together what happened to Evie.Īnd now, spoilers. On the way home from field hockey practice or something, a car pulls up, and Evie disappears into it, and then she’s gone. The End of Everything is about a thirteen-year-old girl called Lizzie whose best friend Evie disappears. As the denouement unfolded, I stopped saying “Yup, yup, yup, yup,” to imaginary Megan Abbott in my head and instead said, “Wait, what were you talking about?” Have you ever had the experience of reading a book and being sure throughout most of the book that you know what’s going on, and then you get to the end and you realize that you actually have no idea if you really know what the author is talking about? That was my experience with The End of Everything.
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