What does byron do that causes his parents make good on their promise to send him to live with his grandma in Alabama? What was that last straw
I think this is in chapter 7. Byron comes into the house wearing a hat one afternoon, and Kenny and Wilona sense that something is up. Wilona makes Byron take off the hat to reveal a handkerchief, and she makes him take that off, too, and is appalled to find that Byron has gone and gotten a hideous hairdo. He has indulged in some sort of chemical treatment to make his hair straight, stiff, slick, and reddish-brown. The phone call to Grandma Sands, who lives in Alabama is made soon after that.
