📖 BOOK REVIEW⠀📚 The Four Winds
AUTHOR: Kristin Hannah @kristinhannahauthor
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press @stmartinspress
Stars: ⭐⭐⭐1/2 + 🐢
Published: February 2, 2021
The Review 📚 The Four Winds
✨ The Title/Cover Draw:
- I had been going back and forth on reading this book as I had never read Kristin Hannah before and historical fiction is hit or miss for me sometimes. I ended up both listening and reading it at the same time.
💜 What I liked:
- This is a sweeping emotional story, told over years of the dust bowl. My own family came over to California during this time so I could definitely relate to the story of the struggle from hearing stories from my family that were passed down. Kristin Hannah paints a beautiful picture of this time period. This is the kind of book that grabs you and won’t let go.
🚦 My face at the end: 😹
💬 The Narrator:
- I really enjoyed Julia Whelan narrating this book. It was clear and easy to listen to for me.
💭 3 Reasons to Read:
- 1. Sweeping historical fiction
- 2. Heartbreaking stories
- 3. A family struggle
🕧 Mini-Summary:
- When Elsa finds herself pregnant and unmarried, she becomes a part of a family of farmers. Tragedy strikes with the dust bowl and Elsa must decide how to move on to survive.
All thoughts and opinions are my own.
📘 Summary 📚 The Four Winds
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 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. 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 America’s most defining eras—the Great Depression.