Kristin hannah the four winds review5/26/2023 ![]() This is somewhat out of character since historical novels usually aren’t alluring to me, but after The Great Alone, Hannah proved that her stories transcend. I have now come to the point where if Kristin Hannah has written a book, I am going to buy it and read it, regardless of what it is about. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress’s Prints and Photographs division When her young son becomes sick from the debris in the air, she is forced to leave everything, taking one old car, her sickly son, and her enraged teenage daughter across the United States to California, seeking comfort and work. Elsa struggles alongside her in-laws, and watches everything she has built and hoped for crumbling, including her eroding marriage. By then it’s 1934 and the Dust Bowl era has begun. She builds a family from dust and hard work. As the years go by, Elsa finds her place with the Martinellis. Rafe, the lover, loses his engagement, his chance at a college education, his ability to escape, and is forced to do right by the strange white girl dumped at his parents’ farm. When it is revealed that she is pregnant by an engaged, Italian farmer, her family is done with her for good, dropping her at the Martinelli farm where her future becomes inextricable with the land. When she makes a new red dress and has one night on the town, her parents shun her and give the few good things she has to her siblings. ![]() Rating: A Story of Family, Survival, and BelongingĮlsa is the sick one. ![]()
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