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The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

May 30, 2026 by elderberrywine Leave a Comment

This is a searing look at Depression/Dust Bowl/Migrant farmer camps in California, as previously depicted in Steinbeck’s famous Grapes of Wrath, but from the point of view of a woman.  Almost as if the famous portrait by Dorothea Lange come to life. Elsa Wolcott, raised in a prosperous Texas family in 1921, is a so-called old maid and is rejected by her family for her ungainly height and plain looks.  One night, though, she takes a chance on Rafe Martinelli, the handsome young son of […]

Filed Under: Fiction, History Tagged With: 1930s Texas and California, Dust Bowl era, Families are not always reiable but when they are nothing better, Farm unions, kristin hannah, Migrant camps, Motherhood at a outragious degree of difficulty, Very unfriendly Mother Nature scenes

elderberrywine's CBR18 Review No:12 · Genres: Fiction, History · Tags: 1930s Texas and California, Dust Bowl era, Families are not always reiable but when they are nothing better, Farm unions, kristin hannah, Migrant camps, Motherhood at a outragious degree of difficulty, Very unfriendly Mother Nature scenes ·
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