01344cam a2200277 4500 610999774 TxAuBib 20150402120000.0 150402s2011||||||||||||d|||||||||||eng|u 2011961452 9780692016046 069201604X TxAuBib McCutchen, Herb. Okie: A Novel. Large Print. Paragon Press, 2011. 514 p. ; 23 cm. TJ McClain and his sharecropper family are forced from the parched hills of eastern Oklahoma, by drought and depression to California as migrant farm workers to labor I n the endless cotton fields around Bakersfield. After an unseasonable storm destroys the cotton crop the family remains in Bakersfield where TJ, now twelve, enrolls in school and begins to grow up in what can only be described as an alien environment. Join TJ as he discovers sex, crime, and acquires an unlikely assortment of friends and associates. You may be surprised, you may be appalled, but you will not be disappointed. 20150402. Large Type books. Sharecroppers Fiction. Migrant workers Fiction. Oklahoma Fiction. California Fiction.