The Four Winds By Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds Kristin Hannah, The Four Winds Book, The Four Winds A Novel, Ebook, Pdf

"The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year,"--Publishers Weekly

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, when 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, A time of abundance, 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 for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak, 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 their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open, Dust storms roll relentlessly across the 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 uncertain and perilous time, Elsa?????????many of her neighbors??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"a-text-italic">The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????"a-text-italic">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,