“And I really began to want to write a quintessentially American novel about some story of lost history that I thought would be as emotional and as inspiring as ‘The Nightingale.’” “In my travels after that book and talking to people, I really began to understand how much that story of female courage and women’s lost history resonated with people,” Hannah says. 2, won’t be able to imagine this story told any other way, so strong a character is Elsa as she fights for survival and finds her own strength in a tale that reaches from the Dust Bowl to the migrant camps of California’s Central Valley in the mid-1930s.įor Hannah, that vindicates the decision to place Elsa at the center of the story, which like her 2015 bestseller “The Nightingale,” a novel about the women of the French Resistance during World War II, focuses on an epic story about women set against the backdrop of history. It is likely that readers of “The Four Winds,” which arrived on Feb.
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