![]() ![]() Though life in CA isn’t what Elsa expected, it is there that she discovers the core of love and strength that has always been who she is. A decade later, when drought, dust storms, and poverty have decimated the Great Plains, Elsa does the unthinkable to save her children: she joins the hordes moving west to California for opportunity and salvation. Three-sentence summary: Twenty-five-year-old Texas native Elsa Wolcott is deemed too old and too ugly to marry, until she meets Rafe Martinelli and is jettisoned into a strange new life on his family’s farm. But I guess a lot of Americans already knew what I didn’t: Kristin Hannah knows what she’s about. ![]() I know, I know - it’s not the book you’d expect to take top honors in a popularity contest. I didn’t read the book description – just resolved to dive in and see what the fuss was about.Īpparently the hype was about the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl, and the injustices suffered by migrant workers trying to survive in California in the 1930s. I immediately got on the waitlist for the audiobook, narrated by the inimitable Julia Whelan. The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah was a runaway favorite, taking the top spot for fiction from coast to coast. A few weeks ago, I saw an infographic about the most-borrowed books in libraries across the US in 2021. ![]()
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