"He was never a good man." Vissy was known to say little else when talking about her husband Gilbert, who liked to go long walking and not talk about it when he got back. Otherwise, she was a pleasant woman. Mavis was her given name but she had gone by Vissy since a girl. She lived to the age of ninety-two, dying in her bed in 1996. Cam remembered his grandmother as stoic and a little demanding. His older brother Jeffery knew her as a kind and generous...