The Last Tear Drop

The Last Tear Drop is a perceptive, adventure novel that depicts the plight of travelers who lived on the road during the Great Depression of the 30s. They took to the road by the thousands in old cars trucks and trailers in search of a way to make a living. The story criss crosses the highways and by-ways of the Eastern United States. These are real people and events extracted from folklore, diaries and legends of the road people. The Last Tear Drop is about Lyle, Marie and their small child, Leone, traveling the rural south in a homemade Tear Drop trailer living a day-to-day vagabond lifestyle. You will meet a variety of unforgettable characters, some you may like and some you want to forget. They were thrust into the caldron of poverty and choose to stay on the road, embracing their nomadic existence as a way of life. There are a lot of stories about every era but this is one of the few remaining windows that opens into a time in our history when nomadic vagabonds traveled the rural south in search a new adventure just around the next bend in the road. Americans have survived adversity from Valley Forge, Pearl Harbor, The Great Depression and 9-11 by their strong beliefs in God and Country. The Last Tear Drop is a magnificent story of how a cross section of Americans coped with hardships against all odds.