Chapter 8, Friends in Low Places Summary and Analysis

Jasmine sighs when she catches her husband Abe staring at the house across the street again. Abe pines over the blue stucco building, but the owner refuses to sell it. Abe and Jasmine already own several houses on the block, so Jasmine's not sure why he thinks he needs that house.

Jasmine promises Abe that she'll get the house for him. She thinks that the land would be a nice place to greet her adoring public, who'd crowned her Queen of the Quarter. The land could be used as a new worship spot for Vodun, an ancient practice she'd adopted from her ancestors. Jasmine thinks that her religion gives her power and she wants to make her father proud as well as get Abe to quit whining about the property.

Jasmine gets on...