Summary

Chapter 5, “That’s Where the Best Dreams Are,” takes place in May of 2005. Dodson officially moved in with Isaiah, and Isaiah began to regret the arrangement immediately. When he left for work, leaving Dodson alone in the apartment, he was sure that he would come back to find the place ruined. However, Dodson was clean and careful. He made breakfast the way his ex-girlfriend, Lupita, had taught him and he thought about calling his friends over. However, he decided against it believing that they would just ruin the place.

We learn that Dodson sold drugs out of an apartment with a bunch of other guys from his gang, the Crip Violators. They all had guns, and a member called Junior was “top of the food chain” (91). Junior bought cocaine straight from drug cartels and sold it to Kinkee, the block captain. Kinkee cooked...