Rachel Malli answers “I feel like I may have missed something,...”

Cate asked this question about Nowhere Girl: A Memoir of a Fugitive Childhood:

I feel like I may have missed something, but did Frank die? I know he was no longer around, and they didn't talk about it anymore, but did they kill him?

Rachel Malli <spoiler>. Thank you so much for asking this! I find so much of this book unbelievable (in the sense that I truly cannot believe most of what is writt…more<spoiler>. Thank you so much for asking this! I find so much of this book unbelievable (in the sense that I truly cannot believe most of what is written in the book). Is Frank dead? I feel like that is what we are being lead to think.

When Bhajan says "The gymnastics meet... when I was twelve, is the last time I will ever see Frank", the use of the word will makes me think she knows that she definitively will not see him again, ever. But where did he go? Are we to presume that Chiara and the dad killed him? Did they send Bhajan and the mom back to Whole Foods for cereal because they were hiding a body? Why were all the lights off? It feels like the book built to this, the apex of the "plot" and then... nothing?

Like, honestly WTF? I'm not really faulting the author but this seems like a major plot point that an editor should have helped flesh out. Granted, I guess if Frank is never mentioned again maybe his untimely demise is not that big of a deal?? I'm quite confused. </spoiler>(less)

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