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On the few remaining acres, his sharecroppers struggle and starve, eking out an existence in the shadow of Ty Ty's neglect. And shunted from corner to corner of the land as the digging progresses is God's Little Acre-the plot whose profits Ty Ty has promised to the church. In service to his obsession, Ty Ty and his family set off a sequence of events that proceed through sexual entanglements and betrayal and culminate in a murder. "
There was a mean trick played on us somewhere," Ty Ty laments. "God put is in the bodies of animals and tried to make us act like people. That was the beginning of trouble."
Passionate, raw and often shocking in its own time, God's Little Acre has sold millions of copies since its publication 1933 and has come to be seen as an American classic.