On his way home, he stops by the Lesters to talk to Jeeter about Jeeter's 12-year-old daughter Pearl, to whom Lov is married. He has walked seven and a half miles to get a sack of winter turnips for 50 cents, which is half of his daily wage. Lov Bensey, a friend of the Lesters, walks to his home at the train yard coal chute.
The main character of the novel is Jeeter Lester, an ignorant and sinful man who is redeemed by his love of the land and his faith in the fertility and promise of the soil. It depicts a family of poor white tenant farmers, the Lesters, as some of the many small Southern cotton farmers made redundant by the industrialization of production and the migration into cities. Tobacco Road is set in rural Georgia, several miles outside Augusta during the worst years of the Great Depression. Tobacco Road has sold over 10 million copies. The novel was included in Life magazine's list of the 100 outstanding books of 1924–1944.
In 1998, the Modern Library ranked Tobacco Road number 91 on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. A 1941 film version, deliberately played mainly for laughs, was directed by John Ford, and the storyline was considerably altered. It was dramatized for Broadway by Jack Kirkland in 1933, and ran for eight years. Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by Erskine Caldwell about Georgia sharecroppers.
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