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#WickedWhispers #TheUnknown

This one is actually on my wish list for #BookedInTime #NAmericanDustBowl

Babb does an excellent job humanizing the dust bowl & depression. I learned quite a bit, especially about the migrant camps and how exploitive & dangerous they could be. 😞

Pretty crappy how her research was likely used by Steinbeck without credit and then she couldn‘t get her book published after Grapes of Wrath was released.

A book I plan to read this month. I‘ve read another by this author, An Owl on Every Post, and enjoyed it. Posting today for #curiouscovers, red and white, and for #littenlisten as I‘ll be listening to the audiobook 😊📚.

Here are my #Bookspin and #Doublespin for December.

After looking at my copy of The Stand, I decided to check it out from the library on my Kindle. The print seems really small. 🤓

I ordered these three for Christmas gifts. The two on the right are for our nephew and the one on the left is for my hubby. (Don‘t worry he isn‘t on Litsy.)

My husband and I loved The Grapes of Wrath. The tagged book should have been published at the same time. Steinbeck‘s came out first and Babb‘s languished on the shelf for years.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/forgotten-dust-bowl-novel-rivaled-gr...

Babb's novel about the Dust Bowl and migrant farm workers was finally published in 2004 after her editor at Random House decided that the market wouldn't support two Dust Bowl novels and tore up her contract. Steinbeck went on to win the Pulitzer for "Grapes of Wrath," and Babb's novel sat on the shelf for 65 years. #rockinmay #dustinthewind

This was excellent. Desperate and heartbreaking and yet hopeful. I don't often read books slowly, but I made this one last. If you've never heard of this author, look her up. Sounds like a fascinating woman with an amazing story. Can't wait to read her other books.

Absolutely loving this book. Heartbreaking, of course...

Tough read, but a classic about the dust bowl era.