“It scares me, what Taslima is doing. Taking her anger outside for all the world to see, like turning open our skins, raw and ugly.”

In this chapter I see a continuation of this ongoing trend throughout the book. Some people deal with their status as an illegal immigrant by keeping their heads down and hoping that they can just get by and not get caught as long as they don’t give anyone cause to look at them too closely. And others believe that regardless of the legalities, they have a right to be there. In their hearts, they are Americans, so it’s no surprise that they deal with it in the American way. Taslima, of course, is the latter. And with these people all doing this, letting others into their world, it’s only a matter of time until______. I don’t know what comes after until. But I do know that something does. They’re balancing on a needle’s tip, and one single breath of air will take them over the edge. But no one knows what’s at the bottom.