Kristin Hannah has taken readers to World II France, remote islands and off-the-grid Alaska in 20 novels about mothers and daughters, sisters, women’s friendships and women’s courage.
In her latest, Four Winds, she lands readers in the bleakness of Texas, 1934, as farmers fight to keep their land although their crops are failing, water is drying up and dust threatens to bury them all. Like so many of her neighbors, the indomitable Elsa Martinelli faces the agonizing choice between fighting for the land she loves or going west to California.
Four Winds strikes a particularly prescient note in 2021, reminding us, as The New York Times wrote in its review, that ours is a nation of scrappy survivors.
Kristin Hannah is an award-winning and bestselling author of more than 20 novels including the international blockbuster The Nightingale, published in 43 languages. A former lawyer, she lives on an island in the Pacific Northwest.
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