Beyond Tobacco Road, a novel of the Deep South, chronicles the Andersons of Montgomery, Alabama from 1970 until the late l990s. The Andersons are an old southern family with ties to aristocracy, debutante balls, bachelor clubs, and a gallant, if defeated, past. Although much has changed in the South since the Civil War, one's place in society is still measured not by wealth, (although money usually lurks in the background), but by breeding and family...