A Crust for Marcus — Norm Wise

Along with being a love story, this early 1900s era novel brings alive the degrading life of Oklahoma sharecroppers under the domain of landowner Ben Curtain in his valley of Green Lea. An ethnic mix of mostly black and while farmers struggle to exist within family infighting, love hate, rape, intermingled with prohibition, the stock market crash of 1929, the Mafia, illegal whiskey and ongoing revenge between Ben and cropper's son Marcus Powers who, at age 25 goes on to control the white bread market of New York. Amidst what circumstances do Ben Curtain or Marcus Powers succeed or fail? Author bio: Norman Wise was born and educated in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A retired accountant, he is a prolific writer. Three more novels are soon to be released.