num_pages: 464
description: 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 Martinellilike so many of her neighborsmust 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.From 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 Americas most defining erasthe Great Depression.Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250178602
language: English
title: The Four Winds
publisher: St. Martin's Press