The Four Winds by Kristin HannahMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Powerful. Heartbreaking. Mesmerizing. Unputdownable.
Depression, drought, dust. Workers' rights, fair pay, American migrant rights.
I can't say enough about this book. What a time period to set this in. It is so relevant considering all that Covid-19 has thrown at us. About the only thing missing from our lives today is the dust-bowl.
I haven't read much about this time period or this part of the country to understand these people's hardships and heartbreaks. Mind you; this book takes place over about only two years.
If you like historical fiction this is going to be a must-read for you.
I haven't read many books by Ms.Hannah, but I certainly will be doing so now!
*ARC supplied by the publisher and the author. Thank-you.
Depression, drought, dust. Workers' rights, fair pay, American migrant rights.
I can't say enough about this book. What a time period to set this in. It is so relevant considering all that Covid-19 has thrown at us. About the only thing missing from our lives today is the dust-bowl.
I haven't read much about this time period or this part of the country to understand these people's hardships and heartbreaks. Mind you; this book takes place over about only two years.
If you like historical fiction this is going to be a must-read for you.
I haven't read many books by Ms.Hannah, but I certainly will be doing so now!
*ARC supplied by the publisher and the author. Thank-you.
SYNOPSIS: "From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression.
Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance.
In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.
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