The Way of Story. Catherine Ann Jones
bossy wife
PITTER-PAT, Elmer’s pet rooster
THE STORY
Three years after his mother’s death and feeling overworked and betrayed by his emotionally distant, rural grandparents, DAVE, 12, runs away to the city to find his father. JIMMI, 11, a tomboy neighbor, follows him. Together, in a perilous adventure through the Georgia mountains, a scrape with a mountain lion, and chance encounter with BESSIE, an eccentric yet wise mountain medicine woman, Dave arrives at the city for the first time in his life. He learns a valuable lesson from ELMER HULL, an elderly black man who loves a pet rooster more than anything. Finally, Dave manages to track down HOYT, his father, only to make the sad discovery that his father is a thief and the one — not his grandparents — who betrayed him by selling his mother’s things.
Returning to Bessie just in time to save her life from JEWEL ED, Bessie’s no good drunken son who has returned to steal his mother’s hidden savings, Dave grows up fast. Discovering Bessie’s quilt patched from bits of the people she has loved (Jewel Ed and Dave among others); Dave asks if he can stay with her. Bessie, truly wise, says he belongs with his grandparents who love and miss him, even though they “ain’t the kind to make a big show of how they feel.”
The truth about the past helps Dave discover himself and realize that the grandparents he left behind are his “home” after all. Dave returns home just in time for Thanksgiving.
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