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From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, the millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them.
"My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family."
Texas, 1921. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But In a time when marriage is the only option for women, Elsa Wolcott considered too old to get married. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.
By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and livelihoods as crops fail, water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa's tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive.
In this limbo and treacherous time, Elsa--like her neighbors--must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family.
The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it--the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity. The novel 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.
"Powerful and compelling, I loved it. Through one woman's survival during the harsh and haunting Dust Bowl, master storyteller, Kristin Hannah, reminds us that the human heart and our Earth are as tough, yet as fragile, as a change in the wind."--Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing
"The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021... Its message is galvanizing and hopeful: We are a nation of scrappy survivors. We've been in dire straits before; we will be again. Hold your people close."--The New York Times
About the Author
Kristin Hannah (born September 25, 1960, California) is an American bestselling author. She is a former lawyer turned writer. She graduated with a degree in Communication from the University of Washington and worked at an advertising agency in Seattle. She graduated from the University of Puget Sound law school and practiced law in Seattle before becoming a full-time writer. Hannah wrote her first novel with her mother, who was dying of cancer at the time; the book was never published.
Kristin Hannah is an award-winning author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster, The Nightingale, which was named Goodreads Best Historical fiction novel for 2015 and won the coveted People's Choice award for best fiction in the same year. Additionally, it was named Best Book of the Year by Amazon, iTunes, the Wall Street Journal, Paste, and The Week. Hannah's this bestselling novel sold over two million copies and published in 43 languages.
Her first novel published in the UK, Night Road, was one of eight books selected for the UK's 2011 TV Book Club Summer Read. Her other work, The Great Alone, was published by St. Martin's Press in 2018 and became an instant New York Times #1 bestseller. It has been also voted the Best Historical Novel of the year 2018 by Goodreads readers. Her latest novel is The Four Winds which was published on February 2, 2021.
Three of Hannah's novels have been optioned for films: Home Front, The Nightingale, and The Great Alone. Her book Firefly Lane was turned into a Netflix original series, starring Sarah Chalke and Katherine Heigl which premiered on February 3rd, 2021.
She lives on Bainbridge Island, Washington, and sometimes Hawaii with her husband and their son.
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Rating: 4.6/5
Author: Kristine Hannah
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publishing Date: February 2, 2021
Edition Language: English
Genre: Mothers and Children Fiction, Historical Fiction, Women's Domestic Life Fiction
ISBN-10: 1250178606
ISBN-13: 978-1250178602
Pages: 464 (Hardcover)
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