Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

Let me start off by saying that this is only the third book by this author that I have read, and that represents only a small percentage of her oeuvre. This is important because I may have initially stumbled onto a book which isn't really what she usually does. This book, unlike The Nightingale, has characters that are almost all good or almost all bad. There is not a lot of in between about them, which is something that is both less appealing to me and also not much like the way most humans are. Other than that, this is a well told story. This book is set in the time and place of the Dust Bowl, and the main characters are appealing and the story is compelling, all the more so because it resonates with what we know about history, as well as fiction written in this era that precedes this book. It weaves in some of what led up to the move westward during the Depression, and without saying so, gives the reader something to thing about as we continue to face immigration and what to do about it.