One character in this novel is afraid that rats will eat his face when he dies, while another is anxious over whether she will be buried in an old calico dress.  
One character in this novel is afraid that rats will eat his face when he dies, while another is anxious over whether she will be buried in an old calico dress.  Three of this novel's characters mistake a brothel for a hotel, leading to one becoming a prostitute for the night.  Another character is likened to a "hound...when he got the itch" as she slides her naked rear end across the grass in an attempt to seduce a man who had earlier bought his wife for seven dollars and some quilts.  The youngest character travels to Fuller with Bessie, a woman with no nose, to buy a new Ford in which they eventually kill an African-American man and the grandmother of the central family, while the hare-lipped Ellie May goes with Luv after Pearl runs off.  A fire set by Jeeter leads to his and Ada's death at the end of, for 10 points, what novel about the sharecropping Lester family by Erskine Caldwell?
One character in this novel is afraid that rats will eat his face when he dies, while another is anxious over whether she will be buried in an old calico dress.  
Tobacco Road