chapter 3 : leroy 's lies chapter 4 : voices in the dark chapter 5 : the '48 hudson chapter 6 : expelled and no football chapter 7 : charles resurrected chapter 8 : first leroy and then bev chapter 9 : where lenny died chapter 10 : sonnett again chapter 11 : lenny 's pistol part ii : everyone has a story chapter 12 : the field late at night chapter 13 : aunt loretta has a story to tell chapter 14 : trish has some answers chapter 15 : leroy and his uncle jesse chapter 16 : hot night out with brenda chapter 17 : breaking ground at night part iii : taking chances and reaping the consequences chapter 18 : oklahoma credit card chapter 19 : halloween and a little dynamite chapter 20 : swapping lies with charles chapter 21 : mary has a little something for everyone chapter 22 : another fight , sort of chapter 23 : leroy bites the big one chapter 24 : another funeral part iv : coming to terms with charles chapter 25 : waking and worrying chapter 26 : digging post holes chapter 27 : the slap in the library chapter 28 : aunt loretta knows more and she 's talking chapter 29 : fighting niggers chapter 30 : with charles in nigger town chapter 31 : shooting roof tops chapter 32 : flood a coming chapter 33 : dog rescue part v : chasing down lenny 's journal chapter 34 : a little about bridges chapter 35 : papa 's problem with delbert chapter 36 : helen 's ring chapter 37 : bobby ray 's new mama chapter 38 : gretta 's baby girl chapter 39 : rumors of chelsey chapter 40 : papa in trouble with mama chapter 41 : papa wants to shake hands chapter 42 : the fight without end chapter 43 : now jesse has something to say chapter 44 : confrontation with mr. sonnett chapter 45 : trip to the junkyard part vi : mama shuts off the water pump chapter 46 : trouble following on the heels of trouble chapter 47 : trish and curt have a niece chapter 48 : loretta and the history of the ring chapter 49 : riding the hammer chapter 50 : putting the pressure on mama chapter 51 : charles in danger chapter 52 : when words fail chapter 53 bonfire chapter 54 : bobby gets a haircut chapter 55 : waylaid on robertson boulevard chapter 56 : graduation chapter 57 : one more stop at the cemetery the escape of bobby ray hammer a novel of a '50s family is not my word like as a fire ?