pick5 Stars • The Pastures of Heaven is a short story collection, published in 1932, that weaves together the lives of various residents in a California valley. The book consists of twelve interconnected tales, each focusing on different characters whose dreams, flaws, and struggles subtly intersect. The valley, described as a paradise-like setting, serves as a backdrop that contrasts with the often troubled or unfulfilled lives of its inhabitants.
pickI read this for book club, and while it doesn't rise to the level of Steinbeck's later more well-known works, it has a historical significance that makes it worth reading. Jim, a young man searching for meaning, joins Mac, an experienced activist, in an effort to organize a strike among apple pickers in 1930s California. The novel focuses on the mechanics of the strike rather than the interior lives of characters, but presents a vivid picture.
“Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike.” Loved this book 📖
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“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. “
“We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.”
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pick?? My favorite novel.
"We can shoot rockets into space but we can't cure anger or discontent."
