num_pages: 184
description: Jeeter Lester, a poor Georgia sharecropper, and his family struggle to get by, but when his son Dude is seduced and married by Jeeter's widowed sister, it starts a tragic chain of events.
language: English
title: Tobacco Road
titlecomplete: Tobacco Road
characters: Jeeter Lester
genres: Fiction, Historical, American, The United States Of America, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Southern, Southern Gothic
ratings_count: 14991
places: Georgia
publisher: University of Georgia Press