Our second adult book club, The Genre Jumpers, meets on the first Tuesday of the month at 6pm. We read and discuss the same book, we read 3 months of one genre then JUMP to the next. This book club is currently full, but you may be added to the wait list in the event of a participant dropping out.

For this meeting we are discussing our first of 3 Historical Fiction: The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah.

“Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance.

In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or go west, to California, in search of a better life. The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American Dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.”