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Michael walks away from Leonie and gets into a truck where his own father, Big Joseph, angrily awaits him. After they leave, Jojo goes inside to prepare himself a sandwich, and Leonie comes in briefly before leaving him alone. Jojo doesn’t like being alone in the house, so he goes outside.
Big Joseph is the father of Jojo’s father, Michael, who is in prison. Back in the narrative, Pop tackles the goat and slits its throat and stomach; he tells Jojo to pull its insides out. Jojo dumps the goat’s skin into a bucket. When Pop cuts the goat’s stomach open it emits a terrible smell, and Jojo runs out of the shed to vomit.
Chapter 1: Jojo The first chapter is told from the perspective of Jojo on his thirteenth birthday. Jojo’s grandmother, Mam , is undergoing chemotherapy (a treatment for cancer), so she sleeps a lot.
Early in the morning, Jojo follows Pop to the family's farm where Pop will butcher a goat for the birthday feast. Although resolved to show his grandfather that he should be treated like a grown man, he vomits at the sight and smell of the dead goat.
Chapter 1 Summary: “Jojo” On his 13th birthday, Jojo follows his grandfather (“Pop”) to the shed behind their house to slaughter a goat: “I try to look like this is normal and boring so Pop will think I’ve earned these thirteen years, so Pop will know I’m ready to pull what needs to be pulled, separate innards from muscle, organs ...
Rotating through the perspectives of several characters, it chronicles the relationships of a dysfunctional family in the fictional town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi. Blending the mythical with the...
Michael and Leonie take their children to meet Michael's parents and Michael fights his father. Pop reveals he killed Richie as an act of mercy because white men would have tortured him to death. Given prevents Richie from joining Mam, and mother and son pass on to the next world together.
