the book ends right in the middle of a
I know it’s a very literary decision and everything and probably part of the reason I love the book so much,
but there is something to recommend a story that ends.
And if it can’t end, then it should at least continue into perpetuity like the adventures of Staff Sergeant Max Mayhem’s platoon.
I understood the story ended because Anna died or got too sick to write
and this midsentence thing was supposed to reflect how life really ends and whatever,
but there were characters other than Anna in the story, and it seemed unfair that I would never find out what happened to them.
I’d written, care of his publisher, a dozen letters to Peter Van Houten, each asking for some answers about what happens after the end of the story:
whether the Dutch Tulip Man is a con man, whether Anna’s mother ends up married to him,
what happens to Anna’s stupid hamster (which her mom hates), whether Anna’s friends graduate from high school—all that stuff.
But he’d never responded to any of my letters. AIA was the only book Peter Van Houten had written,
and all anyone seemed to know about him was that after the book came out
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