02410cam a2200253 i 4500001001300000003000600013007000300019008004100022010001700063020003000080020004000110035002200150090002300172100002100195245003800216250001700254260004500271300001100316504004100327520165100368942001402019952010802033999001502141on1192305447OCoLCta210519s2021    nyu    e      000 1 eng    a  2020040176  a9781250178602 (hardcover)  a1250178606 (hardcover)q(hardcover)  a(OCoLC)1192305447  aFicb.H244F68 20211 aHannah, Kristin.14aThe four winds /cKristin Hannah.  a1st U.S. ed.  aNew York : bSt. Martin's Press, c2021.  a454 p.  aIncludes bibliographical references.  aTexas, 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 a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resillience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible p[ortrait 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. --  2localcBK  00104070aPNLIBbPNLIBcGENd2021-06-17oFic .H244F68 2021pPNLIB21062215r2021-06-17w2021-06-17yBK  c2402d2402