I finished the book over the weekend.  I have to say that I was disappointed at the resolution but captivated nonetheless.  Jennie might have been a ghost or a figment of Eben’s imagination.  I can’t help but wondering if she ever existed outside the confines of his minds.  Jennie seemed to age like children in soap operas.  That is she grew up much faster than anyone else.  She gets older at an exponentially faster pace than Eben does.  She makes the comment several times that he must wait for her to grow up.  My son says the same thing.  He says that one day he will be older than me and then he’ll be allowed to tell me what to do.  “I’ll be the boss then Mom,” he says.  You can’t explain to a child that we all get older at the same rate and that he will never be older than me.  Jennie’s eternal youthfulness in the book seems this way too.  She always believes that Eben will just “catch up with her.”  I’m not sure where I’m going with all this.  It needs to sink in.