Carrie asked:

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Jenn

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Judith yes, & based on Savannah's thoughts & words on the plane, she thinks so too. (it's been months, her mother would be unable to break out, & it will be too late if/when anyone checks.) We know she's already "switched" over to a different reality, reinventing herself as Joy's child when she says, "My mother plays tennis."

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Nikki

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Molly I think surely someone would've heard her cries for help, or a neighbor would've noticed her mail piling up / lawn not mowed, or someone she had plans with would worry when she didn't show up.

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Katie

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Medh

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Witty I don't think so. Logically, and following Moriarty's story writing style, it doesn't make sense. Savannah would like to believe she is dead, and the narrative from her perspective shows her unhinged thinking patterns, but the chances of her mother unable to get anyone's attention in the weeks her food and water lasted are low. Surely, she could have opened the window, pounded on the walls, anything, and eventually someone would take notice. She is more likely to jump put the window and break her legs in the process than let herself starve to death.

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Gail She mentions that there are windows and her mother could yell (whereas a child was too small).

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Marlene Pamer I hope so! Ewww! Savannah, like her mother, definitely has more than a few screws loose. On the other hand and to give a bit of the benefit of a doubt, she didn’t plan to be away for so long. Also, in her bent reality, she did come to view Joy as her mother.
Maybe, too, it’s an example of an abused child (who remembered every day of her, in her own words) turning out to be an abuser. Very sad.

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