What does Camp Cooville represent to Alice in the novel, The Golden State?

Camp Cooville, the site in southern Oregon that Alice is so eager to revisit, symbolizes solitude, resolve, and reconnection with one's most significant memories and experiences. Though the camp is the setting for Alice's death, Cooville represents a sort of Edenic state, a place in which the individual is able to commune best with herself, her past, and her self-dictated future. Camp Cooville is a resting place, a garden, the planting of the old in order to birth the new. After Alice dies here, Daphne is moved into her own newness, and achieves a psychic growth and emotional revelation.