![]() ![]() Her characters were human-there's a rawness to them, a take-me-like-I-am rawness. She captures a specific place-if not a specific time. It's set in West Virginia a place where she herself grew up. Will May reach out from beyond the grave with a message for Ob? for May? ![]() The destination? A spiritualist church that Cletus read about with a medium as a pastor. ![]() Together these three set out on a road trip. But he has a way-a knack-with Ob that is healing and comforting. Cletus is relatively new friend of the family. Summer isn't sure that that is even possible, but she hopes it is for Ob's sake. Ob wants more than anything to make contact with May's spirit. But May died in her garden, and life hasn't been the same since she's left. May and Ob took her in and adopted her times were good, love abounded. All the happiness Summer has known has been in the home of her aunt and uncle. Summer and Ob are the central characters they are the ones most 'missing' May. This novel for young readers explores grief. Premise/plot: Missing May won the Newbery Medal in 1993. įirst sentence: When May died, Ob came back to the trailer, got out of his good suit and into his regular clothes, then went and sat in the Chevy for the rest of the night. ![]()
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