03666cam a2200445 i 4500 567146008 TxAuBib 20220318120000.0 200818s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781250178602 1250178606 TxAuBib rda Hannah, Kristin, Author. The four winds / Kristin Hannah. 4 winds, The. 4 winds. First U.S. edition. New York : St. Martin's Press, 2021. 454 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Read with Jenna. "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 - like so many of 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."--Provided by publisher. "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 - like so many of 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."--Provided by publisher. 20220318. Depressions Fiction 1929. Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Fiction. Women farmers Texas 20th century Fiction. Country life Fiction. Droughts Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. American Dream 20th century Fiction. Nineteen thirties Fiction. FICTION / Women. Great Plains History 20th century Fiction. Texas 20th century Fiction. Historical fiction. Domestic fiction.