![]() ![]() In a warm, typical Hamilton conclusion, Cammy's whole family rallies to comfort and bring her back to herself even Gram Tut makes an extraordinary visit to their home. Cammy is torn by guilt and the mistaken conviction that Patty Ann's courageous death was a last taunt of superiority-exacerbated by Cammy's mother's bizarre expressions of grief. On a day-camp trip, while Cammy is in the complex throes of jealousy involving not only Patty Ann but Elodie, a more distant cousin whose mother is a migrant worker, Patty Ann drowns while saving Elodie from a flooding stream. But though Cammy is sensitive and loving with Gram Tut, she's no saint: she despises her cousin Patty Ann, who lives in a fancy house, is pampered by an obnoxious mother, and seems to be best at everything she does. ![]() Cammy is first seen paying one of her regular visits to a nursing home to see her grandmother, Gram Tut, undeterred by rules that say children must be accompanied by adults. ![]()
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