The Pilgrim: The Pilgrim Summary

While Marianne is out of the co-op one afternoon, when she receives a phone call from an angry, crying woman. It takes Marianne a few minutes to figure it out, but she finally realizes it must be the cousin with home she stayed after she left High Point Farm. Marianne calls the woman back and is told that her grandmother Hausmann, her mother's mother, has died. Marianne is upset when her cousin then continues by telling her that she is not wanted at the funeral as par Corrine's instructions.

Marianne remembers childhood trips to Grandma Hausmann's house, and how her dad would make jokes about the old woman. She thinks of how she is another person Marianne has disappointed and decides she must go to the funeral, anyway. A young man at the co-op, who overheard the...