Publisher's Synopsis
"This is an authentic everyday story of thousands of little families below the Mason-Dixon line, bound to the soil by poverty and blackness," noted Langston Hughes. In his Foreword to Gilbert's 1938 novel of small-town rural life in the South, Hughes offered favorable comparisons to Jonah's Gourd Vine by Zora Neale Hurston and George Henderson's Ollie Miss. Decades later, the book remains an important document of African-American social history.
