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Jeanne
I felt like that story was sort of a metaphor for the Argentinian desaparacidos -- a period of time when the government and the police simply disappeared people and their relatives never found out what happened to them. The stories themselves did not have a linear logic. I mean what happened to the girl who was eaten by the haunted house? She became a desaparacida. Similarly, the husband and the mother in law were simply disappeared. There is no logic to it. That place, the hotel, was a place where things like that could happen. I don't think it makes sense to try to figure out what really happened.
Leah Rachel von Essen
It was a moment of magical realism—I think part of the idea is that we don't and won't know.
Louise
Doesn't the cousin conspire with the new Nordic, truck-driving boyfriend to bump him off? That why he has left early in the morning.
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