Summary

Chapter 13, “Is That You?” takes place in 2005. Dodson and Isaiah robbed another place. Isaiah did not give Dodson any details about the robbery until they were on the way. When Dodson finally asked him, he told him that they were going to rob a beauty shop and steal hair extensions that they could resell for hundreds of dollars. The robbery went much better than the first. Isaiah was happy and Dodson was hopeful about the possibility that he could “quit the crack business” (186).

Over the next two weeks, the pair robbed a sunglass store, a fishing store, and a shoe store. But, because Isaiah insisted on selling the merchandise on Marcus’s eBay account, they did not yet have any money, and Dodson had to continue selling crack, which he resented. Isaiah and Dodson stored the merchandise in Marcus’s storage locker, where...