The last I read Grace was traveling across the south. Grace went to Chattanooga to visit a few friends. She went back to Ed to see if he would take her back but he didn't want her. Grace was devastated. She traveled to N.Y. to get a job at a weapons plant for WWII. At her new job, she was higher up on the assembly plant as a man and it drove him nuts. Grace's mom also moves in with her, and dies while digging a ditch for her daughter.
This chapter was fun to read, she took a small break from hitchhiking which is probably good for her. Grace said that the government plowed down people's houses to put in these factories which suprised me because I never heard of this happening. I also think that it was rather astonishing for Grace to watch her mom die. Kind of scary aswell. I finished part 1 of the book, so I'm looking foreward to see what part 2 has in store for me.
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ReplyDeleteI'm impressed with your varied reading tastes! Well-chosen books. Life on the Mississippi is more autobiographical, and Huck Finn is more fiction, and this may be one of the differences that you notice. You connect well with the characters--keep it up, and HAPPY SUMMER READING!