The Anniversary Party Apocalypse Now Redux Atlantis Bubble Boy Bully Cpt. He stayed in France. She jumped off a cliff in Portugal. While Phoebe has the lingering memories of a Fifties dad who died early of leukemia, her reaction upon attaining adulthood is a bit different from the rest of us Seventies kidlets. We partied furiously and screwed our brains out.
Phoebe sets off in search of discovery.
That hunt can lead two ways. It can lead to discoveries that are interesting to watch or it can lead to a lot of introspection, something best delivered in the thousands of words contained in a novel. As always we don't compare to source material but can tell from the adaptation that the book is heavy on self-introspection and supposition. We know this because the adaptation tells us everything that might have been discovered, if the nature of the search could have led to it. Phoebe is in possession of prosaic bits of writing on postcards that she has carefully preserved, that guide her along the stations of Faith's last journey, but those, in addition to a free tab of blotter acid slipped to her by a street lass in Amsterdam don't offer any great revelation as to what life was like for her sister six years earlier.