


One afternoon, Mattie sees Taylor jump when a car backfires across the street.Mattie tells Taylor that the room upstairs is a kind of "sanctuary" (6.10).She also says that Mattie has a "whole set of people who spoke Spanish and lived with her upstairs for various lengths of time" (6.8).Taylor describes the routine that she and Lou Ann and the kids have gotten into.Funny how all those things come back around. She and Turtle are living with Lou Ann and Dwayne Ray, and Taylor has taken a job at Jesus Is Lord Used Tires. Yup, think candy hearts, pink doilies, the whole kit and caboodle. Taylor's narration skips ahead to mid-February.
