The Four Winds The Four Winds

The Four Winds

A Novel

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Publisher Description

"The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year."--Publishers Weekly

From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them.

My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family.”

Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.

By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive.

In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.

The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it—the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, 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.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2021
February 2
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
320
Pages
PUBLISHER
St. Martin's Publishing Group
SELLER
Macmillan
SIZE
14.9
MB

Customer Reviews

homecareRN ,

A Stunning Book

Relevant for all times, this book reminded me of John Steinbeck’s writing, who is my favourite author. Told from a woman’s perspective, however, it illuminates all the questions I asked both my sets of grandparents, and my mom and dad of the Great Depression, but from a very different lens that is usually in our history books. My grandfathers were both involved in union formation, one in Val d’Or, Quebec, one in Windsor, Ontario. As was my father. Both my brother-in-law and I have been union reps as well. Fighting oppression coming from a source of hierarchy and greed seems to be in our genes. I could relate to Elsa’s daughter’s character especially. This book, with its core of writing about humanity’s fight against financial oppression should be required reading in all high schools. A.F. Riosa

JoaquindaPark ,

Tough read

Not as tough as living through those times. Day after day after day after day. Hardship only a mother could endure. Courage is not the absence of fear. Well written.

lfonagy ,

Amazing!

Wonderfully written with rich colorful characters. Gripping novel that shows the horrors of the great depression and the poverty that ensued from American greed. Another great novel by Kristin Hannah.

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