Summary

In “The Bird Women:” Chapter 13, a garden sprang up around Yejide. Her mother was sitting next to her in a chair. She could sense people rushing around her and on the periphery of her vision, she can see Peter and the others caring for her as she lays in Seema’s lap. Yejide tells her mother what she is seeing and asks if that is supposed to happen. Her mother snaps at her that everything that happens in that house is supposed to happen.

Petronella tells Yejide that from the day she became pregnant, she started to die. She complains the inheritance that they passed from woman to woman did not care who they were, only that there was an heir to pass to. She laughs when Yejide asks if it is God who gave them the gift. She reminds...