Chapter 7, This is the House That Horse Built Summary

In Chapter 7, the reader gets to know Tillie Henderson, one of the prostitutes helped by Corrigan and Jazzlyn's mom. Throughout the chapter, Tillie shares many memories and current events with the reader and they are in no particular order. She tells the reader that she was born a prostitute. She shares that her mother as a prostitute as well before becoming religious. Tillie became a prostitute at age 15 and she shares with the reader her first experience with her first pimp. She tells the reader that she left Jazzlyn with her mother but that she vowed to treat Jazzlyn well and she swore that Jazzlyn would never be a prostitute.

Tillie left Jazzlyn in her mother's care when she moved to New York. She takes the reader through her...