The Bone Sparrow: Chapter 22 Summary & Analysis

Jimmie gets home close to midnight, happier than she’s been in a long time. She knows it’s time, so she climbs up into the attic to her mum’s things. Jimmie finds her mum’s gnome still wearing the sweater her mum knitted him and sits, holding him and listening to her dad and Jonah sleeping downstairs. Closing her eyes, Jimmie imagines listening to her mum singing. When she opens her eyes, she discovers that she’s been singing. Then, Jimmie makes her way downstairs. She catches her arm on some metal on the ladder, but she just licks it and tells the gnome that saliva has healing properties. Subhi would be pleased. Jimmie climbs into bed fully clothed and can smell her mother’s scent clinging to the gnome. The lump in her throat is finally gone. She’ll ask her dad to help her get the garden started tomorrow, but tonight, she falls asleep smiling.