Yet even with the building of new ties and a new life, old problems and sorrows did not go away by themselves. Dicey had watched over the younger kids and brought them through now she wanted to be just a little bit selfish, to refinish the old sailboat she’d found in Gram’s barn, to earn a little spending money, to adjust to Gram and to her new life in the Chesapeake Bay country that had once been her momma’s childhood home. Now that they’d moved in with Gram, their troubles, Dicey hoped, would be over. So Dicey Tillerman, her brothers James and Sammy, and her sister Maybeth had spent the summer on their own on a long and difficult journey to find a home with the grandmother they’d never met before. At the beginning of summer, Momma had abandoned them and them later been traced to an asylum where she lay unrecognizing, unknowing.
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