Summary

In "Didier," it was "late December 2009" in Boston, Massachusetts (171). While working as a taxi driver, Didier "stumbled across . . . a Bible" and became religious (172). A year after his arrival in Boston, he became attached to Christianity because it gave him hope in a time of despair. For a time, music was his religion. It had allowed him to believe "that there [was] something more than the toil and the mercilessness" of life in Haiti (173). In the States by himself, he needed something more. His new reality quickly taught him what it meant "to be black in America" (177). It meant something different in the States than it meant "back home" (177).

While working as a cab driver, he tried to integrate himself to American culture. He listened to NPR and tried getting rid of his accent. No matter what he did, he remained an outsider and...