Danielle's life is changed in the end of chapter ten. It gives the gruesome details of her younger brother, Matt, getting hit by a car.

"He was just off the curb when a brown Mercury (going, the police report would later confirm, too fast for a twenty-five-mile-an-hour street; going, the police report suggested, at least thirty-five) clipped him with its bumper. My brother popped into the air, just high enough for the grill to get him full on. I saw a sparkle of sunlight on the chrome. I saw a blur of Matt movement as my brother was thrust backward. He hit the pavement headfirst and rolled, stopping at the curb, a few feet from where he started."

I stopped reading at the end of this chapter, and it didn't say weither he died or not. It described his body as twisted, his head a "red flower, broken at the stem".
This chapter also talked about how Danielle's dad has countless girlfriends. There were two different kinds of women in his life: the ones that stayed over night and were never seen again, and the ones that stayed around. He had lots of both. The book goes into deep detail about three of the girls who stayed around: Maria Vargas, Suzie, and Lolly Parsons. Maria is a Mexican girl that Danielle's dad has over to the house for drinks, but he never tells anyone that is is associated with her. He doesn't tell people about her because she is an illegal immigrant and he is a very "American" man (goes on about how his taxes shouldn't be used on food stamps for people 'like her'). Maria is also a married woman, but her husband is in jail. Suzie is Danielle's dad's Roscoe's girlfriend. She is a much younger girl, Danielle even thinks of her as the older sister she never had. Suzie is another one of her dad's drinking buddies and he is impressed how she can always keep up with how much he drinks. Danielle really likes Suzie because she says her dads temper dissolves when he is with her. Lolly is the crazy girlfriend. She is the type of girl everyone is warned to stay away from, but Danielle's dad doesn't listen. She is described as a home wrecker and a gold digger. She was recently send to jail for breaking and entering of Danielle's house and now her dad is attempting to get a restraining order from her. But Lolly still won't leave him alone.