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A review by natyweiss
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah
3.0
-Copy provided by the publisher in exchange for honest review-
The story takes place in the Texas panhandle during the great depression and the Dust bowl that devastated a large part of the great plains economy. Elsa lives with her husband's
family in a farm in a place called Lonesome Tree. The relentless dust storms and the ruined crops puts this family and many others in a state of desperation. Abandoned by her husband and without a relief in sight, Elsa decides to follow the footsteps of those who migrated to California, the land of milk and honey, pursuing a better life. But things aren't how she expected. The challenges seem to be endless and poverty, hunger and humiliation are unbearable.
Elsa fights with all her force to keep her children and herself alive making of her life an epic that seems to have no end.
The atmosphere of the book is related to the landscape and the extreme conditions that the protagonist face during the whole length of the book. I fin that clever but a little excessive. The book feels dense and hard to read. I love historical fiction as a genre and find this particular period of history very appealing but at some point the reading experience ceases to be pleasant and the reader is struggling with the characters. And the ending is heartbreaking.
The book is very well documented. I would really like to see a film adaptation. I think that that would be incredibly epic.
The story takes place in the Texas panhandle during the great depression and the Dust bowl that devastated a large part of the great plains economy. Elsa lives with her husband's
family in a farm in a place called Lonesome Tree. The relentless dust storms and the ruined crops puts this family and many others in a state of desperation. Abandoned by her husband and without a relief in sight, Elsa decides to follow the footsteps of those who migrated to California, the land of milk and honey, pursuing a better life. But things aren't how she expected. The challenges seem to be endless and poverty, hunger and humiliation are unbearable.
Elsa fights with all her force to keep her children and herself alive making of her life an epic that seems to have no end.
The atmosphere of the book is related to the landscape and the extreme conditions that the protagonist face during the whole length of the book. I fin that clever but a little excessive. The book feels dense and hard to read. I love historical fiction as a genre and find this particular period of history very appealing but at some point the reading experience ceases to be pleasant and the reader is struggling with the characters. And the ending is heartbreaking.
The book is very well documented. I would really like to see a film adaptation. I think that that would be incredibly epic.