What does the last paragraph say?

Lennon wraps up the end of the novel by tying together the narrative threads of most people involved or tangentially related to the murders from the beginning of the book. The only character left separate is Samantha Geary, the person most affected by the murders, who is revealed to remember nothing about them. At the end of the novel, Lennon shows that the daughter of the murdered couple is so far removed of the events after the murders which so deeply impacted the other characters’ lives as to be unaware of her connection at all to suggest the insignificance of a series of events from one group of people to the next.

The girl is aware that she was adopted, from America, in 2005. She knows nothing else about the time before she was taken in by Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Fucking Murray‘and given a new life in Mani-fucking- toba. She knows herself only by the name her parents gave her, which is Jenny Murray, but she likes to tell people she’s an American and that someday she’s going to go back there and find out what she came from. Also she is going to get a fucking job so that she can get a fuck- ing apartment and her own drum set and then she can have an actual band of her own instead of just sitting around like an idiot getting high while her boyfriend’s shitty band practices their shitty songs.

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She will be seventeen in three days. One more year and she is free. Her chant goes on and on as her mother’s footsteps make their ner- vous way across the kitchen floor, to the dining room, to the foyer.

The mention of Brandon alerts us to how far Samantha has been removed from the murder of her parents, and how far removed she has been from reality.

And farther north, across a border that is meaningless to the Observer, in a town called Brandon, a teenaged girl lies on her back, upon a filthy rag rug, in the basement of a gray-and-yellow bungalow. She wears thin black canvas shoes stylized with three white leather stripes; the girl has used a black marker to color the stripes black as well, though much of the ink has since worn away. Her torn jeans are black and tight against wide hips. A fold of pale belly is exposed be- tween a studded black leather belt and a loose-fitting tee shirt, also torn, that depicts a fierce, white-eyed tiger head surrounded by orange horror-movie text spelling out the words PIERCE THE VEIL. Thick powder has rendered the girl’s face a stark white; black lipstick and eyeliner throw her features into sharp relief. A trail of shapes descends from her left eye, drawn in black eyebrow pencil; the first is a tear- drop that, several iterations later, has evolved into a dagger that seems to threaten her left ear. Her hair is cut unevenly at around shoulder length and is dyed purple save for an orange streak that hangs over her eyes.