Grove, Mother of Lena
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Grove, Mother of Lena
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Grove, Mother of Lena
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Biography:
In Light in August Lena Grove's mother dies in the same summer as Lena's father does,, when Lena is twelve years old. Both parents have impressed upon her a sense of filial duty; she takes care of her father at her mother's dying request and goes to live with her brother McKinley in accordance with her father's wish.