jenlee33 's review for:

The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

4.0

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I picked this up because I read/listened to The Four Winds and saw many reviewers commenting over the similarity between the two books. Indeed, there are a lot of parallels once the main characters get to California. What I'm most impressed by is that Steinbeck wrote TGoW so soon after he spent time with the migrants. He was able to capture their experiences and make commentary on the situation in almost real-time. It holds up 84 years later! I had trouble getting into it, but once I understood the alternating pattern of the chapters between exposition and story, it made more sense.