6/26/2023 0 Comments Bird by crystal chanGrandpa, however, thinks John is a duppy, and when John betrays Jewel's trust, she's forced to assess her own beliefs. When she meets a boy named John with big aspirations and struggles of his own, they become friends. An outsider in her own joyless home and in her small town of Caledonia, Iowa, Jewel takes her troubles to nature, dreaming of becoming a geologist. Grandpa hasn't spoken since, Jewel's father believes that both Grandpa and "duppies" (harmful Jamaican spirits) are responsible for the tragedy, and Jewel's mother, who is of Mexican descent, is depressed and resentful of the family's superstitions. Twelve years later, Jewel's family is far from having recovered. Jewel's five-year-old brother, John, nicknamed Bird, was expecting to fly when he jumped off a cliff to his death the day Jewel was born.
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