Chandler Museum Book Club: The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

300 South Chandler Village Drive,Chandler AZ 85226

20 September, 2022

Description

Introducing 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. Read one--or all--of the books we've selected to help you imagine living in the Dust Bowl era, learn more about Dorothea Lange's personal life, and more! Connect with other readers during in-person discussions led my Museum Staff Kristine Clark and Librarian Anbolyn Potter. Future books include: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, Nomadland by Jessica Bruder, and The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan. --- About The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah: "From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes 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." --- Want to know more? Email our Community Engagement Specialist at [email protected]