![]() ![]() ![]() At the end of the night Esch gets into bed and thinks about her crush, Manny, one of her brother’s friends whom she occasionally sleeps with. As the puppies begin coming into the world, some live and some die soon there are five puppies in all. Earlier that day, Daddy roused Esch and her siblings to warn them that a hurricane was on the way, and that preparations needed to begin-in the Mississippi Gulf town where Esch and her family live, hurricanes are serious business. Esch and Skeetah’s seven-year-old brother Junior is desperate to watch, and though they try to keep him away from the spectacle, their Daddy insists that Junior is old enough to see such things. ![]() It is her first litter, and the labor is difficult and gory. Fifteen-year-old Esch watches as her older brother Skeetah’s prize fighting dog, China, gives birth to a litter of puppies. ![]()
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