In Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, Salamanca goes on a road trip across the 50 states to make peace with herself and her mother. Sal, or Salamanca as her grandparents insist on, ends up journeying with her grandparents. As they start they journey, Sal’s grandpa Hiddle tells Sal to spin a yarn. “And that is how I happened to suspend my tree prayers and tell them about Phoebe Winterbottom, her disappearing mother, and the lunatic.” Creech starts the story in Euclid, Ohio with the past Sal and Phoebe Winterbottom. It’s only after that Creech reveals the present day Sal traveling with her grandparents. As the story unfolds, the past and present is smoothly connected. Because both stories are developing together, Creech builds tension and anticipation as the reader wonders about what will happen next. Sal tells her gram and gramps all about Phoebe with them reminiscing over bygone times, telling anecdotes about their marriage and a girl just like Phoebe. As Sal’s grandparents become more and more interested in Phoebe’s story, Sal is learning about her own story and why it was so hard to let her mother go. …show more content…
Sal says of Phoebe and herself, “The reason that Phoebe’s story reminds me of that plaster wall and the hidden fireplace is that beneath Phoebe’s story was another one. Mine.” This story is about Sal looking at a warped version of her own mother leaving, but it’s Phoebe’s mother who is gone. During this, Sal discover who she was and is through the mysterious notes left on Phoebe’s doorstep. Funnily enough, each of the notes also applies to Sal and her mother. One of the most notable is “Don't judge a man until you have walked two moons in his