The release date for the English version of 'The Four Winds' by
Kristin Hannah is Mar 2023. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
A powerful American epic about love, bravery, and hope, set during the Great Depression—a time when the nation was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions of people were unemployed and the land seemed to have turned against them—comes from the #1 bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone.
If you listen, my country will tell you its tale. The narrative of our family.
1921 in Texas. A period of plenty. America is about to enter a new and hopeful period with the end of the Great War and an abundance of natural resources. However, Elsa Wolcott's future seems grim since she is too old to marry at a period when marriage is a woman's sole choice. Up until the evening she chooses to turn her life around and meets Rafe Martinelli. The only honorable option left to her, her reputation destroyed, is to marry a guy she hardly knows.
By 1934, the Great Plains had been ravaged by drought, and millions of people were unemployed. As crops fail, water dries up, and the ground breaks apart, farmers are battling to protect their land and means of subsistence. The plains are covered with persistent dust storms. Every day is a difficult struggle against nature and a struggle to keep her children alive since everything on the Martinelli farm is collapsing, including Elsa's precarious marriage.
Like so many of her neighbors, Elsa is faced with a terrible decision during this unstable and dangerous period: defend the country she loves or go west to California in hopes of providing a better life for her family.
Rich and expansive, The Four Winds brilliantly captures the Great Depression and the individuals who experienced it, highlighting the brutal truths that tore our country apart and the ongoing struggle 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.