Since Sandy and Birdie have been on the run, Sandy is eating less. She moves like a thin person without any spirit, like Grandma Lodge, in fact. "There was usually some logic to my mother's lunacy. So when she told me she had thought up an 'ingenious solution' to our problem of hiding, I had no choice but to believe her." The FBI is looking for a white woman with a black child, Sandy reasons. If Birdie simply passes as white, with Sandy's newly colored red hair, no one will ever suspect them. They decide Birdie will be a Jewish girl named Jesse Goldman. Sandy becomes her non-Jewish mother, Sheila.
The package from Papa and Cole was a box of "negrobilia." It contains reminders of Birdie's African-American heritage, thrown together at the.....
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