Summary

The chapter titled “The third husband” provides Yo's husband Doug's perspective and is narrated in the present tense. The newlyweds are adjusting to married life. Doug is amused by Yo's quirks, including the fact that she leaves saucers of “spirit waters” (258) around the house, presumably to ward off evil spirits. Corey comes to stay with Yo and Doug, and one night at dinner she mentions she received a collect call from a man named José in the Dominican Republic, who asked her to marry him. She declined, but assured him that she, Doug, and Yo would help him if he found his own way to New York. When Doug refuses to do this, Corey is infuriated. Yo declares that the family must be under a spell brought on by the soil from José's farm, and demands that Doug...