Birthday present: looks pretty good! https://octodon.social/media/K6HT3VUcFyhAbyUWtxA
@Devils_Rancher Sounds fascinating.
@dearbhla The author sought out as many survivors as he could & the books is woven mostly around interviews with them.
@Devils_Rancher it's some thing I know very little about, but still interested by it.
@dearbhla it kept me up past my bedtime last night. He’s doing a very good job of setting the stage in the first couple chapters - why people moved there & why things started going wrong. Lotsa greed.
@Devils_Rancher ok ok! You've forced me to add it to #MountTBR and that's a huge monster, but I'll get to it some day
@Devils_Rancher that’s my second favorite Dirt Disaster book, trailing Montgomery ‘s _Dirt: the Erosion of Civilizations_.
Anyway, I’m threading this by replying to myself, but so far The Worst Hard Time is really, really good. It’s about the people who stayed through the dustbowl of the 30’s & their stories of survival. Grapes of Wrath is its counterpart - the hardships of those who tried to escape it. 2 sides of the same bleak coin.