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Alyssa asked this question about Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine:
SPOILER * I have a question about the mother and the ending of the book... I am still surprised and want to make sure that I am reading it correctly, I just finished and am kind of in surprised. SPOILER * * * * * Did her mother die in the fire? Was the woman on the phone just part of her imagination? Her coping?
Shayonnita Mallik The ending is superb, and it really comes as a surprise. But there were clues all along. First, she didn't actually have a location for her mother, an…moreThe ending is superb, and it really comes as a surprise. But there were clues all along. First, she didn't actually have a location for her mother, and she could never actually say where she was. Second, her mother's constant changibility--the voice took up accents and ideas, and intonations. Third, and the most telling, the fact that she heard her mother's voice at random times, and kept trying to hear her own voice, choose herself. (less)
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Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine
by Gail Honeyman
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