Summary of the Four Winds

audiobook (Unabridged) The Four Winds Book´s Complete Analysis & Chapter by Chapter Study Guide

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A chapter-by-chapter high-quality summary of Kristin Hannah´s book The Four Winds, including chapter details and an analysis of the main themes of the original book.

About the original book:

The year is 1921 in Texas. It's a season of plenty. The Great War is over, the land's wealth is abundant, and America is on the verge of a new and hopeful period. But the future appears gloomy for Elsa Wolcott, who is judged too old to marry at a period when marriage is a woman's only option. Until she meets Rafe Martinelli one night and chooses to change her life's path. With her reputation in shambles, she has no choice but to marry a guy she hardly knows.

By 1934, the world had changed; millions of people were out of work, and the Great Plains had been decimated by drought. As crops fail, water runs out, and the soil breaks up, farmers are struggling to maintain their land and livelihoods. Dust storms rage over the plains incessantly. Every day is a terrible battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive on the Martinelli farm, including Elsa's shaky marriage.

In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa, like so many of her neighbors, must choose between fighting for the place she loves and leaving it behind to seek a better life for her family in California.

Summary of the Four Winds