This was a good book, but it was also hard reading. I read the second half of it on Friday, cried through most of it, but could only put it down to make and eat dinner.
Elsa is a wonderful character who is ignored, underestimated, and ultimately abandoned by her rigid, conventional family. She finds love and strength in her new life with her husband's family. In fact, she becomes more of a family member than her husband.
Hannah poignantly captures the daily horrors of life in the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression as well as the dangers faced by people who tried to escape it.
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