The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year.--Publishers WeeklyFrom 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 the land seemed to have turned against
them. My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family.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.The
Four Winds is a rich sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and
the people who lived through it-the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the
enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope resilience and the
strength of the human spirit to survive adversity 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.
