✨ “The four winds have blown us here, people from all across the country, to the very edge of this great land, and now, at last, we make our stand, fight for what we know to be right. We fight for our American dream, that it will be possible again.”✨
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Never has a historical fiction hit so close to home.
🌾 THE FOUR WINDS by Kristin Hannah🌾
📝 Brief synopsis: Elsa has never fit in with her family. She was a sickly child and wasn’t allowed to do much. Plus she was plain, ugly even — and her parents always took the opportunity to remind her of that. She always knew she was meant for more and desperately wanted the love she read about. But the true love of her life was becoming a mother and a farmer. But extreme drought and dust storms plagued the land her family lives off, and the Great Depression is looming. Elsa is forced to take her young son and her strong-willed daughter, Lareda, across the country to seek work on farms in California. But instead of the opportunities she was promised, she finds low wages, discrimination, and the constant fear of not being able to feed her children. As harsh as teenage Lareda can be on her mom, she inspires Elsa to finally find her voice.
💭 My thoughts: KH does it again, y’all. I didn’t truly know what to expect from this book and it was such a ride. It was incredibly hard to read about the pain Elsa and her family went though and she was such a relatable, loveable character you couldn’t help but feel like you were reading about a dear friend suffering. She truly embodies a mother’s love — and the responsibility and pressure women have as moms. No one is surprised (bc KH has the innate ability to make me cry) but I sobbed. Y’all. I actually cried in the author’s note (that’s a first) because of how relevant this story was to today — we are a country struggling and a country divided. KH writes how even she didn’t expect this novel to have relevance today but boy does it hit home.
🌟 Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
📖 Read if…. you love all books by KH (this one is less like The Great Alone and more on par with Nightingale) and want a reason to call ur mom 📞
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