Summary

In Chapter 28, Allen visits a shrine to buy a girl so he and Taylor can set her free. He finds a priest eating kola nuts in a hut with no electricity and a television being used as a table. The priest asks what Allen wants to buy the girl for and when he says he wants to give her a chance to live freely, the priest laughs and says, “Hmmmm, freeness is not always a good thing. Freeness is what brought many of these girls here in the first place, you know. Now they are paying for the so-called freeness of their family members and ancestors” (165). The two men negotiate over a girl and it makes Allen nauseous. “To say that it was upsetting would be an understatement. To say that it made him angry enough to kill--that would be hitting the nail...