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Tolerated in his white Depression-era Louisiana community, traveling salesman John Washington finds his dissatisfaction and time on the road taking him away from his family and manifesting in an affair with African American mistress Odessa.
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2 editions- Other · English · 2014St. Martin's Press · 9781466881976
- Other · English · 2003Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press · 312 pages · 9780312290795
MistressesDepressionsRacially mixed childrenFictionFathers and daughtersAfrican American womenIllegitimate childrenTraveling sales personnel