In the Dust Bowl's grip, a resilient Texas woman must choose: fight for her dying farm or chase a new life in California.
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In the Dust Bowl's grip, a resilient Texas woman must choose: fight for her dying farm or chase a new life in California.
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Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s 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.
By 1934, the world has changed; ...
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Premarital encounter leads to shotgun marriage; later marital breakdown shown
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Dust Bowl economic collapse and westward migration central to plot
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Children endangered by starvation and environmental catastrophe; failing marriage
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