Missing Sarah
A Vancouver Woman Remembers Her Vanished Sister
by Maggie de Vries

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• Format: hardcover, 272 pages
• Genres: memoir, canada, crime, biography, family, death
• Publisher: Penguin Books Canada
• ISBN: 9780143013716 (0143013718)
• Language: english
• Author: Maggie de Vries
• Release date: August 13, 2003

About The Book

Between 1978 and 2001, 63 women disappeared from Vancouver’s Lower Eastside. “How could this have happened?” is a question that will haunt the families of the missing for the rest of their lives. While a lumbering, largely unconcerned police department is partly to blame, Maggie de Vries thinks this is too simple an answer. Most if not all the women in question were prostitutes and/or drug addicts, and so it was relatively easy for law enforcement officials and politicians to ignore the mysterious disappearances of people considered by society to be second-class citizens. Missing Sarah is de Vries’s attempt to remind us that these women had dreams and hopes, and families who loved them. In clear, honest (and, at times, honestly naive) prose, the author recalls her adopted sister Sarah’s early, outwardly happy middle-class childhood, and the powerlessness the family felt as the young sibling became more and more entrenched in a downtown milieu of drugs and sex. By her teens Sarah was running away from home at every opportunity, and eventually the family saw her only a few times a year, usually during the holidays. And then they stop hearing from her at all.

Using Sarah’s journal entries and the recollections of some of her co-workers in the sex trade, as well as family memories, de Vries pieces together what she can of her sister’s life on the streets and finds moments of humour and humanity: “My toes get so cold they actually make me cry when they start warming up again,” Sarah writes in her journal. “My hands aren’t much better. The tips of my fingers, yikes: ouchie, ouchie, ouchie.” Why did Sarah let herself get lost on the cold streets of the city rather than retreating to the bosom of her family? How could the police be aware of over five dozen missing women and still not admit there might be a serial predator at work? These are questions that, ultimately, will never really be answered to anyone’s satisfaction. In Missing Sarah, Maggie de Vries has written a warm, sometimes angry but most often evenhanded tribute to her sister that does much to commemorate the lives of all the women whose remains may lie somewhere on the now-infamous Port Coquitlam pig farm. De Vries herself comes to a deeper understanding of the world, and rather than shrink back she faces the darkness with strength and clarity. The rest of us should feel lucky Missing Sarah is as close as we’ll come to experiencing the horror that she and the rest of the families are enduring still. — Shawn Conner

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