A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl Free Audiobook Download by Susie Finkbeiner
A Cup of Dust follows the story of four Oklahoma farmers as they struggle to survive the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. They are forced to migrate to California in search of a better life, but instead find a life with only marginal fulfillment. The novel focuses on how people adapt and adjust among different worlds, making food from dust, selling their family's land for a turtle farm, and dreaming about returning home.
This is an audiobook explaining the Dust Bowl in 1930's America. A family of farmers in Oklahoma has to uproot and move their family to California as a result of hard times, where they struggle with adapting to life as migrant workers amid race discrimination and class contradictions.
The Dust Bowl that hit the Great Plains of America in the 1930s was a disaster, causing mass dust storms, crop failure and starvation. Along with these natural dangers came a man-made one that threatened to be even more dangerous than the dust itself: The Great Depression.
In 'A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl', the reader follows thirteen-year-old Abner, a young boy growing up in rural Oklahoma during the Great Depression. The novel opens with Abner's first day at work in the local cotton fields. We follow his journey through poverty, his struggles for survival and to find love.
In the 1930s, devastating dust storms swept across America's breadbasket, turning dirt into dust that laid over fields and abandoned homes. The people living in these areas were left without water or electricity - struggling to survive. This novel follows one family's story of the Dust Bowl during the Great Depression with a focus on their farm and the land it was built on.
The Dust Bowl was the worst natural disaster America had ever faced and the Great Depression is hailed as one of the most significant events in American history. In A Cup of Dust, Susie Finkbeiner tells a story about how ordinary people faced these two disasters and comes away with hope for their future.
Published Date | 2019-01-08 |
Duration | 10 hours 0 minutes |
Author | Susie Finkbeiner |
Narrated | Tavia Gilbert |
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Abridged | No |
Is It Free? | 30-days Free |
Category | Fiction & Literature |
Parent Category | Historical Fiction |