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Josie asked this question about The Story of the Lost Child (Neapolitan Novels, #4):
Do you think the Solaras took Tina?
Nicole I don't know, I just kind of feel like it's not really important *who* took Tina or what happened to her. If that was meant to be crucial to the story…moreI don't know, I just kind of feel like it's not really important *who* took Tina or what happened to her. If that was meant to be crucial to the story, I think the author would have disclosed what it was. What's monumental is that Tina disappeared from Lila's life in general, and it ties pretty well into Lila's whole fear of "dissolving margins." It just shows how fragile our existences are and that there is very little distinction between our "reality" and "somewhere else." Just like how towards the end of the novel, Elena talks about how Lila was obsessed with both the history of Naples and whatever fantasies she made up about it. For Lila, Tina was always there, just not within the confines of those everyday "margins." Wherever Lila disappears to in the end is surely where she imagined Tina to be.(less)
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The Story of the Lost Child
by Elena Ferrante
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