![]() It is one of the first great pages I’ve ever read, Hannah did amazing with this part. With this encounter, you get really drawn to the Elsa’s character. Elsa is despised by her parents and sisters for being sickly and unattractive -“too tall, too thin, too pale, too unsure of herself”. When the book starts, it’s on the eve of Elsa’s 25th birthday (the main character).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. 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. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. 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. ![]() ![]() Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Historical Fiction, Romance novel, Domestic Fiction ![]() Guest Book Review by Sthembile Mthethwa of Kristin Hannah’s historical fiction The Four Winds. ![]()
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