Trouble brews all around the Luthers in Jackson. 

Jody, Grace and Willie entertain the Duprees at a dinner from hell. 

While working her after school part-time job at the draft board, Jody meets young Davey Starr.

Jody has dinner at Melvin's house with Jeanine and Miss Sails. 

Jody does some big time growing up by lying about her age to get into the X-rated film, Midnight Cowboy.

Jody, Grace and Willie celebrate an Easter from hell with the Dupree family.

The very explicit account of what happened to Emmett Till as told through the voice of Jody Luther. A performance of "Ode to Billie Joe" by Chrissie Flatt follows. 

Jody drives passed out Grace and her sister, Willie, home to Jackson from Choctaw Ridge through the broken down old south.

Faced with the hardness and loneliness in Jackson, Jody remembers the past summer working at The Double Mountain ranch in her beloved Texas Hill Country. 

Listen to "Bellarosa" by Eliza Gilkyson at the close of this chapter.

Jody sneaks out to meet Davey for a late night date at a protest party.