Delphine doesn't remember much about Cecile and really only hears about her from Uncle Darnell.She's the girls' mom, but she hasn't acted like one. Cecile, it turns out, left Pa and the girls on their own back in Brooklyn.
Then again, Big Ma doesn't like change.Big Ma, for one, doesn't feel great about the girls going out to see her (and that's putting it mildly). You know, sunshine, beaches, Disneyland, but there's some tension around Cecile, it seems. The girls have high expectations of California.Apparently they're off to Oakland to visit someone named Cecile. Then Delphine remembers their dad dropping them off.Consider yourselves warned that names are a big deal in this book. Delphine goes into a little thing about whether people call the famous boxer Cassius Clay or Muhammad Ali, which sets our story firmly in the mid-1960s (he changed his name in 1964 ( source)).You can almost reach out and grab the air quotes around that phrase. The narrator thinks about her caretakers, Pa and Big Ma (Pa's Ma), who will be worried about them making a "grand N**** spectacle" of themselves.The narrator has this idea that the clouds are causing the turbulence, and even though she knows she's not totally right about the clouds, she keeps on telling tall tales about fighting clouds.The narrator comforts her sisters, so we know she's the caretaker.The title of the chapter, it turns out, references the turbulence that they're going through.Delphine (our narrator) and her sisters are on a plane and it's a bumpy ride.
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