Book: The Grapes Of Wrath

Title: The Grapes of Wrath

Author: John Steinbeck

NLS Number: DB68308

Another classic I’ll start reading today.  The introduction says that this story is about a family of 1930s sharecroppers, who, forced to leave their dwindling farms in Oklahoma, move west, to California to find a better life.  But most of them found far worse; including famine and death.  There, among the ravages of greed, were born the Grapes of Wrath. Curious that I would choose this book at the very time that Arizona adopted a  tough immigration law  that would seem to encourage the sort of profiling and brutality perpetrated against the characters in this book. 

Tom Hesley

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