If you have not read it already, you may want to return to simply visiting the characters . Part of the reason that it is short is because, purposely, not everything is spelled out for the reader.
Many people think of silence as an absence.
But really, silence can say a great deal. Galen s ghost Rain decides that Galen s actions regarding her and Queenie were motivated by his mother s influence. The theme and characters in a book are different for every reader because every reader brings to them his or her own life experiences and perceptions. This may be especially true for novels like this one, which is more about asking questions than giving answers. Too often tests will ask what an author meant by this or that in a story, and the theory seems to be that there's one right answer.