Part II, Pages 97 through 132 Summary

Ursa returns to Bracktown with the intention of having her mother talk about Ursa's father. She takes her mama some avocados, though her mother says they're too expensive. Ursa's mother lives in the house where she had lived when Ursa was born. Ursa's grandmother and great-grandmother had also lived in that house though Mama is now alone. Ursa remembers being in town for Grandmama's funeral. Ursa now encounters some of the local people who talk for a moment before she goes on her way. Ursa says she'd invited her mother to come stay with her after she'd gotten the job at the Spider, but that her mother refused to leave. Ursa says that house contains too many memories and that it seems the memories are more her mother's now than "theirs."

Mama is canning preserves for Mr...