The four winds
Title
:
The four winds
Personal Author EPSB
:
Kristin, Hannah
Summary
:
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.
Other Title
:
4 winds
Year Published
:
2021
Physical Description
:
454 pages ; 25 cm
Subject
:
Migration, Internal -- United States -- History -- 20th century -- Ficton
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 -- Fiction
Droughts -- Great Plains -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
Depressions -- 1929 -- Fiction
Farmers -- Texas -- Fiction
Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
Families -- Fiction
American dream -- Fiction
Farm life -- Fiction
Genre
:
Domestic fiction
Historical fiction
Summary
:
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.
ISBN
:
9781250178602
Publisher
:
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021.
| Library | Call Number | Type | Item Barcode | Status |
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| Jasper Place | F HAN | Book | 30071000658745 | Fiction |