Part 2, Chapter 12 Summary

Halley and her dad leave early the next morning for Buffalo to see Grandma Halley. Halley couldn't sleep the night before, worrying about the way she and Macon left things. Halley hopes that Macon cares enough about her not to look elsewhere for what she has been denying him. When Halley walks into her grandmother's room in the Evergreen Rest Care Facility, she is struck by how pale and small her grandmother looks and how tired her mother looks. Halley's mother keeps squeezing Halley's shoulders reassuringly. When Halley's grandmother wakes up, she doesn't immediately recognize Halley, which makes Halley feel for a moment as if she has already turned into another, unrecognizable Halley. The family watches Grandmother Halley eat turkey and cranberry Jell-O off a tray, and then the three Cookes go to a downtown hotel for a Thanksgiving buffet. Halley...