![]() ![]() Soon, Ob forms a friendship with Cletus Underwood, a strange kid in Summer's class. Summer worries that Ob is planning to die so that he can be with his wife. Ob, always depressed, believes he has been visited by Aunt May's spirit. As the story opens, twelve-year-old Summer and her Uncle Ob are coping with the loss of Aunt May, who died suddenly while gardening. Her Aunt May gardened and her Uncle Ob created sculpture "whirligigs" to represent what he calls, "The Mysteries," meaning intangible concepts such as spirits, hope, and heaven. There, Summer happily flourished over the next six years. The couple immediately saw that she wasn't receiving enough attention from her previous caregivers and brought her to their small home in the Appalachian hills. ![]() ![]() ![]() Orphaned as a baby, Summer was passed around to various relatives before meeting her Uncle Ob and Aunt May. When Uncle Ob forms an unlikely friendship with Summer's strange classmate, Ob becomes obsessed with contacting Aunt May's spirit. Uncle Ob's wife and Summer's mother figure, Aunt May, has recently died, leaving Ob depressed, much to Summer's dismay. Spanning less than 100 pages, Cynthia Rylant’s children’s novel Missing May (1992) tells the story of a young girl named Summer and her guardian, Uncle Ob. ![]()
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