The relationship between the sister’s took a nosedive after their father’s death but it only got worse as Jo prepared to leave for college and then the contact was cut completely with Jo refusing to acknowledge her sister and banning any of her family from even mentioning her name.
Upon returning home, she is immediately bombarding by the memories of the happy life she has before her father’s death but despite Ellen and her Aunt A basically pleading with her to get in touch with her sister, Jo refuses. As she waits to return home, she has become obsessed with the podcast and reading anything related to it but she also begins to drink in order to sleep and forget. Her mother abandoned them after their father’s death opting to join a cult instead and her death just makes Jo angry but she knows she has to go back from her Aunt A and the other members of the family left behind.Īs we approach the ¼ mark in the novel, we learn a lot not just about Jo but the family she left behind all those years ago and the emotional scars she has buried long before her mother’s death. We also learn that for 5 years, Jo travelled the world trying to outrun her father’s death eventually leading her to Africa where she met Caleb but the pressure is rising for her to come clean to him but she can’t bring herself to do.
At this point, Ellen is pleading with her to come clean to Caleb as she won’t be able to hide the truth forever, especially with the podcast becoming a sensation and her mother suddenly committing suicide which means she has to return to her childhood hometown. In the wake of the podcast, Jo is overcome by paranoia which doesn’t settle until Caleb returns home from Africa. We learn that Lanie was the one that said she saw Warren kill their father but this wasn’t the first statement she gave the police, in her first statement both twins had said they were sleeping and were woken up by the gunshot. In them we meet the supposed killer, Warren Cave who has been in prison from 13 years because one of the twins said they saw him committing the murder but it also came to light that Josie’s father was having an affair with Warren’s mother but the case was circumstantial at best. She realises that the phone call might have been from her twin sister Lanie, but she is warned by her cousin, Ellen, not to listen to the podcast and they are trying to get it shut down but curiosity gets the better of her and she ends up listening to the first 2 episodes.
Josie on the train hears about a podcast that is investigating the murder of her father 13 years before and Josie is rattled as she has lied to everyone in New York about her past, even her last name in order to distance herself from the event. She puts this down to a bad connection and puts it out of her mind until Caleb responds to her email saying he never called her. Josie gets a phone call and she believes it to be a Caleb, when she says she misses him a female voice answers saying that she misses Josie too. Review: The opening to Are You Sleeping was interesting, we are introduced to Josie living a domestic life in New York with her partner Caleb, who is away working in Africa.
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