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What impact does Grandmama's move have on the family?
Although everyone seems to miss South Carolina—certainly Jackie, her grandmother, and her mother all do—there's also a power, which her mother recognizes, in having all the living family together in Brooklyn. The mimosa tree represents both what Jackie's grandmother left behind and what she was able to bring with her: a sense of closeness to what is far away.
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What is, according to this book, the difference between storytelling and lying?
In this book, it's a very fine line. Jackie tells untruths about her family, as the poem "the stories i tell" shows; her classmates seem to take them as the truth, although in...
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