"A saga of two families that portrays the harsh circumstances and intense courage displayed by African-American sharecroppers and Caucasian men as they formed the towns of Nicodemus and Hill City in the western Kansas prairie during the late nineteenth century"--Provided by publisher.
The story of a degraded, poor-white Georgia family living in a tumble-down shack on worn out land. This land had once been the prosperous tobacco plantation of Jeeter Lester's grandfather.
"When the patriarch of twelve-year-old Bean's sharecropping community dies, Bean gets a lesson in not only what it means to lose someone you love, but also in how his family and friends care for their dead"--Provided by publisher.
