I will send rain : a novel

Summary: "Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulledin different directions. Annie's fragile young son, Fred, suffers from dust pneumonia; her headstrong daughter, Birdie, flush with first love, is choosing a dangerous path out of Mulehead; and Samuel, her husband, is plagued by disturbing dreams of rain. As Annie, desperate for an escape of her own, flirts with the affections of an unlikely admirer, she must choose who she is going to become."--Syndetics

Item details

ISBN: 9781627794268
ISBN: 1627794263
ISBN: 9781627794275
Physical Description: print
256 pages ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2016.
Copyright: ©2016

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Subject:

Rural families Oklahoma Fiction
Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 Fiction
Farm life Oklahoma Fiction
Droughts Fiction
Oklahoma History 20th century Fiction
Dust Bowl Era (1931-1939)
Droughts
Farm life
Rural families
Oklahoma

Genre:

Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.

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