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Letters from the Dust Bowl
by Caroline Henderson

Letters from the Dust Bowl
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Author: Caroline Henderson
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-03
ISBN: 0806135409
Number of pages: 278
Publisher: Red River Books

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Book Review: Tragic but honest: A Woman's Journey into Despair
Summary: 4 Stars

This book is best read quickly, if not at a sitting, then over a weekend. In that way Henderson's prose gets its power, and it will take you from youthful optimism to euphoria, then to despair, and then to a sort of middle ground in which she makes peace with herself and the land. She's at her best when she describes her mental and verbal battles with intolerant churchmen: she just couldn't buy into the vengeful God of the itinerant evangelists of the time, and she was not shy about expressing her opinions. This book will make the Great Plains and Dust Bowl come alive, not as a scholarly, "objective" tome, but as a woman's journey of the heart. A very nice read.

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