{"id":6250,"date":"2021-06-25T14:46:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-25T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/?p=6250"},"modified":"2021-09-13T12:54:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T16:54:36","slug":"6250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2021\/06\/25\/6250\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: “The Four Winds” by Kristin Hannah"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The Four Winds<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, by\u00a0Kristin Hannah (2021)\u00a0 <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Audio Book CD format – Reviewed by:\u00a0 Dawn Bechtel, avid Andover reader (listener)<\/span><\/p>\n

About the author:\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristin Hannah age 61<\/em>\u00a0is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels.\u00a0 Kristin<\/em>\u00a0is a former-lawyer-turned writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The story:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Texas in 1921 was a time of abundance. The Great War was over, and crops were plentiful people prospered.\u00a0 For Elsa Wolcott, considered by the time too old to marry when marriage is a woman\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n

By 1934, millions are out of work and the Great Plains is failing in the midst of a devastating drought.\u00a0 \u00a0Farmers fight to keep their land and their livelihoods as water dries up and the earth cracks open. Horrible dust storms roll across the plains, people are dying. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa\u2019s marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive.\u00a0 This is the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression.<\/span><\/p>\n

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.<\/span><\/p>\n

Book Quotes:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cElsa knew that a library card\u2014a thing they\u2019d taken for granted all of their lives\u2014meant there was still a future.\u201d\u00a0 \u2015\u00a0Kristin Hannah,\u00a0<\/strong>The Four Winds<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cBooks had always been her solace; novels gave her the space to be bold, brave, beautiful, if only in her own imagination.\u201d\u00a0 \u2015\u00a0Kristin Hannah,\u00a0<\/strong>The Four Winds<\/strong><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cA warrior believes in an end she can\u2019t see and fights for it. A warrior never gives up. A warrior fights for those weaker than herself. It sounds like motherhood to me.\u201d\u00a0 \u2015\u00a0Kristin Hannah,\u00a0<\/strong>The Four Winds<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

My Review:<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

For Kristin Hannah fans, you won\u2019t be disappointed in her newest book.\u00a0 I listened to this on audiobook and the narration was wonderful.\u00a0 This book brings in so much from family expectations to self-liberation; living well to fighting for breath; the weakness of man and the strength of women; friendship and motherhood; the prosperity and cruelty of a change in weather.\u00a0 This book will hold you and keep you, such a well-written story of sacrifice, courage, and hope.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Four Winds, by\u00a0Kristin Hannah (2021)\u00a0 Audio Book CD format – Reviewed by:\u00a0 Dawn Bechtel, avid Andover reader (listener) About the author:\u00a0 \u00a0 Kristin Hannah age 61\u00a0is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels.\u00a0 Kristin\u00a0is a former-lawyer-turned writer who lives in the Pacific Northwest with her husband.\u00a0 The story:\u00a0 Texas in 1921…<\/span><\/p>\n

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