Walk Two Moons Chapter Summary & Analysis - Chapter 23 Summary

Chapter 23 Summary

Gramps is worried about Gram, as her breathing is raspy. They are going to stop in the Badlands, a national treasure. As they closer, Sal hears more insistent whispers in the air: Slow down, slow, slow, slow. She suggests maybe they shouldn't go to the Badlands.

Sal's mother was terrified of cars and did not drive. Sal and her father were astonished when her mother told them that she was going all the way to Lewiston, Idaho. She didn't know why at the time but later finds out that her mother has a cousin there whom she hasn't seen in fifteen years. Her mother thought her cousin could tell her what she was really like before she became a mother and a wife.

The Badlands rise up in jagged peaks and steep gorges in the middle of the flat plains of South Dakota. Gram is not breathing well. Sal's mother...
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