Book Club September 2022- Sorry I Missed You
By: Suzy Krause
Published Year: 2020
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Pages: 313
Summary (Provided by Goodreads): A poignant and heartwarming novel about friendship, ghosting, and searching for answers to life’s mysteries.
When Mackenzie, Sunna, and Maude move into a converted rental house, they are strangers with only one thing in common—important people in their lives have “ghosted” them. Mackenzie’s sister, Sunna’s best friend, and Maude’s fiancé—all gone with no explanation.
So when a mangled, near-indecipherable letter arrives in their shared mailbox—hinting at long-awaited answers—each tenant assumes it’s for her. The mismatched trio decides to stake out the coffee shop named in the letter—the only clue they have—and in the process, a bizarre kinship forms. But the more they learn about each other, the more questions (and suspicions) they begin to have. All the while, creepy sounds and strange happenings around the property suggest that the ghosts from their pasts might not be all that’s haunting them…
Will any of the housemates find the closure they are looking for? Or are some doors meant to remain closed?
What I thought
Mackenzie, Sunna, and Maude all live in a house split up into 3 apartments. These apartments are owned by Larry, who was left the home by his aunt with some pretty explicit rules as to what he can and cannot do with the house. All three women have been ghosted by someone important in their past, so when a letter (or basically half a letter) shows up at the house addressed to no one and asking to meet at a coffee shop, they all think it might be for them from their lost person. As a result, they decide to band together and see if they can figure out who the letter is for.
I’m not normally one for this type of book. It meanders a lot and there is A LOT going on. At time, there were a few too many plot points to follow, but overall it flowed really well. The book was a quick read and I enjoyed it as well as the message it tried to tell.
None of the characters were very likable, but they worked together in that way. I think if one of them had been significantly more likable than the others it would’ve made the other characters unbearable. Sunna was easily my least favorite. I ended up liking Mackenzie, though her story line maybe confused me the most. I also ended up liking Larry more than I thought I was going to. Maude irritated me, but not as much as Sunna.
There was a bit of confusion on my part with some of the conclusion and it didn’t wrap itself up quite the way I would’ve wanted. Though I was definitely surprised by the way things wrapped up. I also was a bit confused by the timeline of the book. The way the characters reacted to the letter it made it seemed like they had all been ghosted within the past few months. However, some of them had been ghosted years prior. Just threw me off a little.
What book Club Thought
Everyone agreed that the characters in this book are extremely dislikable. I think Meghan and I enjoyed it a little more than the others. We found it to be a good balance of silly without getting too over the top. Logan, however, listened to it on audiobook and she said that she thinks that made some of the characters intolerable. There were a lot of questions just because of the insane amount of things that happened in the book, so we had a decent amount to discuss. Overall, this was a cute and fun book. I would definitely recommend it.