What’s Up With the Ending?

The end of One Came Home is a few paragraphs of Georgie's reflections on the Meaning of Life and what she has learned. In them, Georgie reflects on all the death she's seen—Darlene, the fire victims, pigeons—and she decides she will no longer be a hunter because all life is sacred to her now. She wants to value life the way Agatha values it, and really, that's the key: She wants to be more like Agatha and she wants to figure out where she belongs in this great web of all life on the planet. We're guessing figuring that out will be Georgie's next adventure.