A pandemic in the form of “dust pneumonia,” a divided nation suspicious of outsiders, unemployment, poverty…this is not an easy read. The Four Winds, which came out this past spring, is also oddly prescient of today’s struggles in America. Then comes the Dust Bowl, the stock market crash and the Depression come crashing into her world, and Elsa must choose between staying and striking out for California to carve a better life for her children, facing incredible hardship, bleak poverty and sickness. But she finds a sense of family with her in-laws. Starting in 1930, Elsa Martinelli was doing well enough, despite a marriage she didn’t particularly want. My review could probably stop there, but good golly, what a book! What a book! As with what is perhaps my favorite book of all time-The Nightingale-The Four Winds is a story of survival against the odds. Kristin Hannah is one of the best authors alive.
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