What Readers are Saying About Leo Daughtry's Talmadge Farm

"The characters in this book could be people who lived; many like them certainly did. It was a time of innovation, which Daughtry made clear, but also a time changing values. For those people caught between the old and the new, it could be hard. Daughtry did an amazing job of putting that conundrum on paper/audio, when he wrote this book. It is heart-breaking in many ways, and not just the obvious, but for those who are not able to change, and really shouldn’t have had to in many ways. A man brought to his knees, through his own fault, because of culture change is a sad thing. Daughtry showed it with grace and kindness."

 

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"Talmadge Farm has often been described as a love letter to the South. Daughtry says, “Despite what the South has done and is doing, everybody loves the South. The South has a charm about it, and this book talks about the good parts of the South, how good the people are, and what the South has meant to so many of us… It’s a love story in many respects.”

It’s 1957, and tobacco is king. Wealthy landowner Gordon Talmadge enjoys the lavish lifestyle he inherited but doesn’t like getting his hands dirty; he leaves that to the two sharecroppers – one white, one Black – who farm his tobacco but have bigger dreams for their own children. While Gordon takes no interest in the lives of his tenant farmers, a brutal attack between his son and the sharecropper children sets off a chain of events that leaves no one unscathed. Over the span of a decade, Gordon struggles to hold on to his family’s legacy as the old order makes way for a New South.