Gorilla, My Love | Summary

As ‘‘Gorilla, My Love’’ opens, a first-person narrator says, ‘‘That was the year Hunca Bubba changed his name.’’ It soon becomes clear that the speaker is a young person, but not until the story is nearly over is it revealed that she is a girl, and that her name is Hazel. In the opening scene, Hazel is riding in a car with her Granddaddy Vale, her Hunca Bubba (Uncle Bubba) and her younger brother, Baby Jason. They have been on a trip South to bring pecans back home. Granddaddy Vale is driving, Hazel is navigating from the front seat and therefore is called...

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