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Back in the present, Hannah doesn’t know anything about her mother’s disappearance because she wasn’t alive at the time and her family never talks about the event. Looking to understand what happened to Lydia, Hannah sneaks out in the middle of the night, unbolting the new front door lock and walking to the lake.
She does not know anything about her mother's disappearance that summer. Instead, she retraces Lydia's steps on the last night she was alive, attempting to understand her sister's motivations. The story flashes forward, and the police tell James and Marilyn that they have closed the criminal aspect of their investigation.
Looking at the book, Lydia notices that there are bumps over the pages that must have been caused by teardrops. She suddenly feels a strong sense of guilt for Marilyn’s disappearance, and tells herself that when her mother comes back, she will do everything she asks.
Summary. Analysis. During Hannah’s life, the Lees have never discussed Marilyn’s disappearance, and thus Hannah has no idea that it happened. After Lydia’s death, Hannah feels confused and angry. She wants to ask Lydia what it was like to disappear into the lake.
Hannah, meanwhile, doesn’t have a theory about Lydia’s disappearance but she does have concrete evidence that her older sister left the house voluntarily in the middle of the night. The fact that Hannah fails to share this information with her parents or the police might appear irresponsible and frustrating.
When the text first shadows Lydia’s point of view, it is in relation to her absent mother. She attempts to find out why her mother left, and when she finds the tear-marked Betty Crocker cookbook, she determines that Marilyn left because Lydia and Nath made her sad.
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However, Jack does not know anything about Lydia's whereabouts. Hannah realizes that on the night of Lydia's disappearance, she saw a silhouette move across her family's yard. In retrospect, Hannah realizes that this was Lydia.
