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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Seems like an event exploited; better to stick with Grapes of Wrath for the writing or Whose Names are Unknown for the history and perspective. K. Hannah's writing, for the most part, was flat. Maybe I expected more, but I felt the book overly descriptive and mundane; the writing never really made the characters breathe. There simply wasn't any richness to the sentences. I got 100 or so pages into it because of great reviews, and indeed, very well-written. But then began realizing, “What on earth am I doing? This is one of the most grim, horrific times in American history (just short of the Civil War.) So why am I reading page after page of dying birds, trees, cattle, and abject suffering?" I know stories about this much-ignored time are important. I know the reviews promise ultimate hope. But I just could not get through the grinding misery, haunted by the fact that for me, it’s only a book. These things really were happening to thousands of families, not that long ago. If a book makes me lie awake at night in tears, with visions of horrors that were real, I just can’t continue. Maybe another time. Probably not. Just don’t have it in me anymore.
Hannah brings Dust Bowl migration to life in this riveting story of love, courage, and sacrifice...combines gritty realism with emotionally rich characters and lyrical prose that rings brightly and true from the first line Epic and transporting, a stirring story of hardship and love...Majestic and absorbing.
"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"-- No library descriptions found.
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I hope it gives more empathy and insight on poverty and migration and prejudice to those who need this point of access.
Mostly I really appreciate the references to and research of Sanora Babb, may she eventually get her dues, and may those who stole her work finally be held to account. ( )