Summary

In Chapter 8: "Dissonance," Yamaye and Irving watch a police helicopter circle the neighborhood. Yamaye has not heard from Asase for two days, and Eustace remains at the hospital in critical condition. Irving goes to meet with Hezekiah, Asase’s father, and returns an hour later to inform Yamaye that apparently Asase stabbed Eustace. He tells her to stay away from Asase’s family, warning that there will be “retribution now” (94) Three days later, Yamaye learns from the newspaper that Asase was found hiding in the Crypt. Yamaye suspects that Lego must have helped her, but the newspaper has no information about him. She calls Bongo Natty but he is hostile to her, and tells her that Eustace and his wife are going to move and close Dub Steppaz, and tells her not to visit Eustace in the hospital, that “his...