![]() As they travel, they make new friends, often fellow migrants, who provide much-needed camaraderie. The journey west is filled with harsh conditions, from punishing sun and dust to swarming locusts and dust storms. As drought ravages the fields, money and food become scarce, and Elsa makes a choice that could cost her family everything-to migrate west to California in search of a better life. The novel is set in the small farming town of 1930’s Haskell, Texas, where thirty-one-year-old widow, Elsa Martinelli, and her 12-year-old daughter, Esperanza, struggle to make a living as a family. The Four Winds is an emotional novel by award-winning author Kristin Hannah that paints an intimate portrait of one woman’s struggle to survive and have hope during the dustbowl of the Great Depression. ![]()
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