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Gramps walk two moons8/9/2023 ![]() To distract her, Gram asks for her to tell them a story while they drive, so Sal starts to tell them the story of Phoebe Winterbottom. ![]() So, Sal and her grandparents set out toward Lewiston from Euclid, and Sal spends the first thirty minutes of the ride praying to the trees, because she's so afraid of cars and car accidents. She knows her grandparents want to visit her mother in Lewiston she knows that both her grandparents and her father know that she's scared to go see her mother, and that she needs some extrinsic motivation to do so and she also thinks her dad wants alone time with their neighbor, Margaret Cadaver. He tries to convince Sal that her grandparents need a responsible chaperone like herself to keep them out of trouble, but Sal knows that "the real reasons were buried beneath piles and piles of unsaid things" (5). When Sal's father asks her to join Gram and Gramps on the road trip to Lewiston, he frames it as if she'd be doing him a favor by going. Sal finds Phoebe's story and life experience somewhat similar to her own. Sal starts at a new school there, where she meets a girl named Phoebe Winterbottom. Gram and Gramps Hiddle propose a road trip after Sal and her father have been living in Euclid for a few months. The sudden change of environment is made even more difficult by the fresh loss of her mother, who left Sal and her father in April and isn't coming back. Sal struggles to adjust to the suburban lifestyle of Euclid. In Bybanks, the Hiddles lived on a farm with wide pastures, livestock, and a swimming hole. Salamanca Tree Hiddle is a thirteen-year-old girl who has just moved to Euclid, Ohio from her beloved hometown of Bybanks, Kentucky. ![]() Walk Two Moonsbegins with the narrator, Sal, briefly describing the circumstances which lead her and her Gram and Gramps Hiddle to set out on a cross-country road trip from Euclid, Ohio to Lewiston, Idaho.
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