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Rachel, I still owe you a review for May. I'm reading a book now that qualifies. I'll post the review soon. The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah. Hannah provides a story detailing the hardships and abuse poor families suffered during the Depression and when the farms of the mid-west are ravaged by dust storms, turning the land useless. The time is 1936. The story takes place in Dalhart, a small town located in the panhandle of Texas. The recession is in full swing, and farms in the mid-west are being ravaged by dust storms that leave the ground incapable of producing their normal harvest of corn and wheat. The story opens with the Martinelli’s, Elsa and Raffaello (Rafe) living with Rafe’s parents on a farm that has been in the Martinelli family for generations. Rafe abandons his family when the dust storms ruin the farmland in the mid-west, never to be seen or heard from again. A year later, with the farm devasted by dust storms and incapable of producing corn or wheat, Elsa and her two children, Loreda and Anthony (Ant) leave the farm, driving west in search of work. The story describes the hardships the family endures as they drove west in search of a better life. They soon are in the midst of the hordes of people and families with the same idea. They they arrive in California, the family moves onto a corporate farm where they pick cotton, and like so many others, they are taken advantage of. Working long hours in the sun, paid little, and forced to buy overpriced food from the company store, Loreda joins a group of men and women who are trying to improve the plight of the migrant workers attempting to form a union. They meet with horrible resistance by the land owners. In the end the migrants lose their bid to form a union, and Elsa Martinelli is killed in front of her children by the men hired by the landowners. The ending comes when Loreda and Ant return to their farm Texas to bury their mother. |
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