![]() ![]() Eventually Fractal leads Cammy into the heart of a long-hidden family secret that threatens to shatter what little stability Cammy has built since her cousin's death. Something about Fractal makes Cammy leery-and it's not just her overbearing cockiness. They had to go on with what they had to keep looking through." Both girls are distracted from their pain when a huge family reunion in Cammy's hometown unites the cousins with distant relatives, including the wisecracking computer-hound Fractal. And all year it seemed they had to make their way through an aching dark to get to a peaceful day time. "For a long time after, all them had this awful kind of hurt look, like it was their fault," writes Hamilton in her confiding, down-home narrative. It is now a year later, and the two surviving cousins (Cammy and Elodie) are grappling with their own grief and guilt over the drowning. In the previous book, Cammy's first cousin Patricia Ann died in a drowning accident while trying to rescue their cousin Elodie. ![]() Building upon her 1990 success, award-winning author Virginia Hamilton returns to the endearing main characters of Cousins. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |