Erskine Caldwell's most famous (or infamous) novel,
God's Little Acre is $1.99 at Amazon.
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Single father and poor Southern farmer Ty Ty Walden has a plan to save his farm and his family: He will tear his fields apart until he finds gold. While Ty Ty obsesses over his fool’s quest, his sons and daughters search in vain for their own dreams of instant happiness—whether from money, violence, or sex.
God’s Little Acre is a classic dark comedy, a satire that lampoons a broken South while holding a light to the toll that poverty takes on the hopes and dreams of the poor themselves.
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The novel's sexual themes were so controversial that the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice asked a New York state court to censor it.
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