Son's parents separated when he was about seven or eight. His mother took him to Tallulah, Louisiana, across the Mississippi River from Vicksburg, Mississippi. When Son was in his early teens, they moved to Algiers, New Orleans.
George Eliot. Mary Anne Evans (22 November 1819 â 22 December 1880; alternatively Mary Ann or Marian), known by her pen name George Eliot, was an English novelist, poet, journalist, translator and one of the leading writers of the Victorian era.
Chapter 1: George Eliot Jr., aka Snookum. George Eliot, Jr., also known as Snookum, narrates Chapter 1. He is sitting at the kitchen table eating with his siblings, Toddy and Minnie, when he hears Candy outside yelling for Aunt Glo, his grandmother.He tries to get up and see what is happening, but his grandmother orders him back to the table.hen he arrives at the Marshall House, where Janey lives, he calls to her from the gate. Janey chastises him for yelling so loud and tells him that he should call Lou, Mr. Lou, and Candy, Miss Candy.. When Janey asks what it is all about, Snookum tells her that Beau is lying bloody in Mathu's yard.