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At the end of Book I, Art calls his father a "murderer" for destroying his mother's diaries after her suicide. What does he mean by that? Is there anything metafictional about Anja's diaries?

At the end of Book I, Art calls his father a "murderer" for destroying his mother's diaries after her suicide. What does he mean by that? Is there anything metafictional about Anja's diaries?

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Art saw the destruction of his mother's diaries as a kind of murder. They were the one thing she left behind, through which, he could have come to know her.

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