Like China and the narrator herself, Mama was a fighter, determined not to go to the hospital even as she hemorrhaged blood after Junior’s birth. Mama, as she calls her, birthed all four of her children in their Mississippi house, which sits on a property called the Pit. Her older brother, Skeetah, acts as China's birthing coach and is protective of the dog's comfort.įrom the start, the narrator compares China to her mother, who died giving birth to her youngest brother, Junior. Narrating in the first and third person, she intersperses a present-tense account of the scrappy pit bull’s birthing process with memories of her long-deceased mother and stories of Manny, the boy she likes, from earlier in the day. Ward’s female narrator, who goes unnamed in the first chapter, watches her family’s dog, China, give birth in her father’s shed, alongside her brothers.
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