TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hannah,Kristin
TI  - The four winds
SN  - 1250178606
AV  - PS3558.A4763 F68 2021
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York
PB  - St. Martin's Press
KW  - Migration, Internal
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Ficton
KW  - Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Droughts
KW  - Great Plains
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Novels
N2  - "From Kristin Hannah, 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"--
ER  -