Birthday present: looks pretty good! https://octodon.social/media/K6HT3VUcFyhAbyUWtxA
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.
@Devils_Rancher Sounds fascinating.
@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
@dearbhla The author sought out as many survivors as he could & the books is woven mostly around interviews with them.