God's Little Acre: Erskine CaldwellA chronicle of the final decline of a dysfunctional poor white family in rural Georgia. Exhorted by their patriarch Ty Ty, the Waldens ruin their land by digging it up in search of legendary gold from the glory days of the Walden clan. The frenzied Ty Ty drives his extended family to dig and find it but God's little acre must not be touched. There is not only madness and delusion there's complex sexual entanglements and betrayals that lead to a murder