01626cam a2200265 4500 503790592 TxAuBib 20210130120000.0 200831s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250178602 1250178606 TxAuBib Hannah, Kristin. The four winds / Kristin Hannah. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. 451 pages. An epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. 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. 20210130. Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Fiction. Droughts Fiction. Great Depression Fiction. Survival Fiction. Historical fiction. Great Plains Fiction.