Summary

Chapter 33 is titled “The Brokenness of Everything.” Granny told her to come to the holler when her family home burned down. The house and the dog were gone but there were several junked cars in the yard. Bobi saw them as a “cliche symbol of white trash” (243). Driven by grief, she smashed the windows of those cars. A millstone that was in a flowerbed was the only thing to survive the fire and she took it. She noted that she washed “in the creek for the last time and knew I wouldn't be back” (244). Once, when her father was being released from jail, an attorney asked whether his younger children (Bobi's half-siblings) should be returned to the home. Bobi spoke up, saying her father was a terrible, brutal person and should not be allowed to have the children. He got them back anyway...