ceiling lights & chandeliers
tobacco road
set during the depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding augusta georgia tobacco road was first published in 1932 . it is the story of the lesters a family of white sharecroppers so destitute that most of their creditors have given up on them . debased by poverty to an elemental state of ignorance and selfishness the lesters are preoccupied by their hunger sexual longings and fear that they will someday descend to a lower rung on the social ladder than the black families who live near them .