So I finally got around to reading Joyland and enjoyed it immensely. Nice, old-school, tight, linear SK fiction. BUT.....
Or did I miss something?
...it strikes me that Annie's fate is left as a big, open question mark. I know Dev later got married to someone he met after graduating college, and even mentioned that he was dating someone when he got the news that Mike passed. But after they scatter his ashes, the book just ends. Even getting something like, "I turned around and Annie was gone," or "we kept in touch for a few years after, but the letters became less and less frequent and eventually stopped altogether" would have tied everything up.
Or did I miss something?