Chandler Museum Book Club: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

300 South Chandler Village Drive,Chandler AZ 85226

21 March, 2023

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Join the Chandler Museum Book Club! Staff at Chandler Museum and Chandler Public Library have come together to choose a mix of fiction and non-fiction that expand on topics from the exhibition, Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler. Whether you've been following along since last year, or saw a single book that caught your eye--join us to imagine living in the Dust Bowl era, learn more about the land, and more! Connect with other readers during in-person discussions led my Museum Staff Kristine Clark and Librarian Anbolyn Potter. Future books include: A Seed in the Sun by Aida Salazar and Nomadland by Jessica Bruder --- About The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck: "Shocking and controversial when it was first published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize-winning epic The Grapes of Wrath remains his undisputed masterpiece. Set against the background of Dust Bowl Oklahoma and Californian migrant life, it tells of Tom Joad and his family, who like thousands of others, are forced to travel west in search of the promised land. Their story is one of false hopes, thwarted desires, and broken dreams, yet out of their suffering Steinbeck created a drama that is intensely human, yet majestic in its scale and moral vision." --- Want to know more? Email our Community Engagement Specialist at [email protected]