Summary

The chapter begins with the women mourning Sadie’s death. The Shouters sing an old spiritual called “I Know Moonrise” with a refrain of “To lay dis body down” (109). Maryse clenches her fingernails into her palm because “that pain at least feels real” (109).

Maryse asks Emma and Molly what they should do next, but Molly does not seem willing to fight. She believes they are too outnumbered. Maryse wants revenge. She wants Chef to make bombs to kill everyone who is coming to Stone Mountain, even women and children. She does not care if they are Ku Kluxes or not.

Maryse is in extreme emotional distress. She says she feels as if she is on fire and like there is a hornet’s next in her head. She says it feels “as if a piece of Butcher Clyde’s awful singing wormed its way...