Summary Part 2

Summary Part 2

As their friendship drift apart Angela hides from Gracey. After the exams Jarred and Angela want to go to Sydney, Angela would stay with her grandparents and Jarred with his cousin. Out of the blue Gracey asks Angela if she could accompany them and Angela says yes. On the journey Gracey tells Angela, that she wouldn’t stay with Angela at her Grandparents but with another aunt of her to meet her brother Dougy. When Angela and Jarred drop Gracey off, they get to know the whole family. There is aunt Irene, Dougy, Nerida, her baby and a bunch of kids. Nerida is the widow of Gracey’s brother Raymond. She has a boy who is staying at her sister’s house and the baby Raylene. Raylene has a problem with her heart, they need to go to the hospital almost every day and that’s why Angela starts to drive them to the hospital regularly. One day Gracey and Angela talk to each other and Gracey tells Angela that she missed her. They also talk about Derek Campbell and Gracey tells Angela that she still didn’t believe the story of Angela’s grandfather. Somehow, they come across the aboriginal name of Dougy and Angela asks Gracey if she too had an aboriginal name. She did but she never told Angela and she doesn‘t want to now. Her aboriginal name symbols a part of Gracey that Angela doesn‘t know and that she doesn‘t understand. Short after that the doctor tells the family, that Raylene needs an operation.

At the same day of the operation Gracey has a race. After the race Gracey tells Angela that she wouldn’t go back to Brisbane but stay in Cunningham. Angela doesn‘t understand that and doesn‘t accept it either. She thinks life in Cunningham wouldn’t be good enough for Gracey, no university, no job, no future. But Gracey wants to be with her family and she doesn‘t want to forget that she is black. They end up in a huge fight which seems to be the end of their friendship. After this fight Angela returns to her grandparents. On the next day Angela goes to the hospital, where the hole family is, they tell her, that Raylene got an infection after the operation and that they could only wait. Dougy tells Angela, that Gracey already left for Cunningham. Short after, Angela’s grandmother calls her, she has to come home because they have a visitor.

It turns out that the visitor is a Gubba man named Harry Falkirk. A Gubba man is a white man working for the government. He helped Angela’s Grandfather with taking Derek Campbell away. Harry admits that the mother of Derek didn‘t give her boy away. Harry tells them, that the only reason why Derek’s mother gave him away, was because he threatened her that if she didn’t let him take Derek away, he would take all her kids. Angela’s grandfather didn’t knew that, he always thought he had helped Derek. Angela is angry and sad. She finally understands that Gracey was right, the kids were happy in their families. The only reason why they got separated from their families was because their fathers were white. Now she can also accept, that Gracey needs to go back to Cunningham, back to her family. To clear her head she goes back to the hospital to see if Raylene was okay. At the hospital she meets Jarred. He gives Angela a note from Gracey. On the note is only one word: Janderil. Angela immediately understands that Janderil is Gracey’s aboriginal name. Because of this little note Angela knows, that Gracey still trusts her and that there is hope for their friendship. Fortunately, Raylene gets better, she is off the critical list. The book ends, when Angela realises that she is glad, that Gracey was in Cunningham. She would write to her, she would call her, she would cry with Gracey in the hard times and laugh with Gracey when she was happy.

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