Chapter 8 Summary

Taylor, Jax and Turtle live in a small house in a compound owned by a locally famous artist, a woman named Gundi, who tends to run around naked. Annawake comes to Jax and Taylor's home and finds Taylor on a ladder putting a boom box in an apricot tree. She wants to keep the birds from eating the fruit, she tells her, because they are Turtle's favorite food. Jax and Turtle are not there because he has taken the little girl to the zoo to see two new rhinoceroses. Taylor tells Annawake that Turtle and Jax are trying to write a song about endangered species.

Annawake tells her who she is and why she's there. Taylor tells her that she didn't take the child, she was dumped on her, that Annawake's people had let her fall through the cracks and that she was...