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With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows.īy 1934, the world has changed millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak.

The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. A former lawyer turned writer, she lives with her husband in the Pacific Northwest."The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year."-Publishers Weeklyįrom 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.

KRISTIN HANNAH is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than twenty novels, including The Nightingale and The Great Alone. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman who will discover the best in herself in the worst of times. 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 crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all.

Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. "If I close my eyes, I can still taste the dust." The Four Winds, by #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Hannah, is an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Click Here for Book Club Discussion Questions and a Special Book Club Kit!