Kristin Hannah · 2021 · exile
A saga of the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression: as drought and black blizzards destroy the Texas Panhandle, Elsa Martinelli must choose between the land she has come to love and the promise of survival out west, joining the great migration to California and the brutal world of migrant farm labor.
- 1Dalhart
On a hardscrabble Texas Panhandle farm, Elsa watches drought and towering dust storms bury the crops, the animals, and her family's future.
- 2San Joaquin Valley
With her children she drives west to California, only to find not a promised land but ditch-bank camps, starvation wages in the cotton fields, and a fight for dignity.