Summary

In “The Right and Proper Way to Die:” Chapter 7, it has stormed for three days since Petronella lay down to die. Yejide waits for her mother to call for her. She remembers the morning that her Granny Catherine died. It had been a bad storm that had taken her. The house had been in an uproar when Yejide arrived home from church. Peter explained to Yejide that her Granny was going where she had to go and her mother was waiting for Granny to call her.

Yejide remembers also when Geraldine, her mother’s twin sister, died. Even after the requisite time for grieving was finished, Petronella's grief remained. One day, Yejide made tea for her mother. She sensed Geraldine sitting next to her mother on the porch. Yejide tried to talk to her mother and...