Recommended by: Matt L., Student
Call Number: Stacks F595 .E38 2006
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families
and their communities through the rise and fall of America's High Plains during the Great Depression,
going from sod homes to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows sealed by
damp sheets in a futile effort to keep the dust out. He follows their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black blizzards, crop failure, and the deaths of loved ones. Drawing on the voices of those who stayed and survived, Egan tells a story of endurance and heroism against the backdrop of the Great Depression.
