The Four Winds

nFrom Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras--the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli--like so many of her neighbors--must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. 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. nThe Today Show/Jenna's Book Club February Pick nOne of 2021's Most Highly Anticipated New Books--Newsweek nOne of 27 of 2021's Most Anticipated Historical Fiction Novels That Will Sweep You Away--Oprah Magazine nOne of 24 books for February--GMA.com nOne of The Most Anticipated Books of Winter 2021--Parade nOne of the Books Everyone Will Talk About in 2021--PopSugar nOne of The 57 Most Anticipated Books Of 2021--Elle nOne of 32 Great Books To Start Off Your New Year--Refinery29 nOne of 25 of the Best Books Arriving in 2021--BookBub nOne of The 21 Best Books of 2021 for Working Moms--Working Mother nOne of The Most Anticipated Winter Books That Will Keep You Cozy All Season Long--Stylecaster nOne of the Most Anticipated Books of 2021--Frolic The Four Winds seems eerily prescient in 2021 . . . Its message is galvanizing and hopeful: We are a nation of scrappy survivors. We've been in dire straits before; we will be again. Hold your people close.--The New York Times Through one woman's survival during the harsh and haunting Dust Bowl, master storyteller, Kristin Hannah, reminds us that the human heart and our Earth are as tough, yet as fragile, as a change in the wind. --Delia Owens, author of Where the Crawdads Sing 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 t