Now in November
by Josephine W. Johnson
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Author: Josephine W. JohnsonAfterword: Nancy Hoffman
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1993-01-01
ISBN: 1558610359
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
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Book Review: "Don't they want a man to farm?"
Summary: 4 Stars
Tough times down on the farm. It's a Depression year and farmers are just barely scraping by, but this year troubles are compounded by a relentless drought. The Haldmarne family, ruled by a hard, somewhat tyranical father, try to survive, and barely do.
Tragedy shows its face in the character of one of the three daughters, Kerrin, who is filled with anger and sets herself apart from her family; after a blowup with her father and the hired man Grant, she commits suicide. The mother dies in a fire. Another tragedy, quieter though just as painful, is revealed in the unrequited love the narrator Margret, another daughter, has for Grant, who goes away after Kerrin's death.
Johnson writes a chiseled prose that is unsentimental and direct, and it works well with her subject matter. "All I want is a chance to live without shoveling out everything I can earn," says Haldmarne at one point. It was the universal cry of the farmer during the Depression. Johnson's book depicts those times well.
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