God's Little Acre : A Novel

Like Tobacco Road, this novel chronicles the final decline of a poor white family in rural Georgia.Exhorted by their patriarch Ty Ty, the Waldens ruin their land by digging it up in search of gold.Complex sexual entanglements and betrayals lead to a murder within the family that completes its dissolution.Juxtaposed against the Waldens' obsessive search is the story of Ty Ty's son-in-law, a cotton mill worker in a nearby town who is killed during a strike. First published in 1933, God's Little Acre was censured by the Georgia Literary Commission, banned in Boston, and once led the all-time best-seller list, with more than ten million copies in print.