Stormy Weather
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Narrated by:
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Colleen Delany
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Written by:
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Paulette Jiles
About this listen
Oil is king in East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks. And in every small town, their mother, Elizabeth, does her level best to make each sparse, temporary house they inhabit a home.
But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, and the family's fortunes sink further when a questionable "accident" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times. With no choice left to them, they return to the abandoned family farm.
It is Jeanine Stoddard who devotes herself to rebuilding the farm and their lives. But hard work and good intentions won't make ends meet. In desperation, the Stoddard women place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well, and on the back of late patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe. And Jeanine must decide if she will gamble it all...on love.
©2007 Paulette Jiles (P)2007 HarperCollins PublishersWhat the critics say
"Eloquent, engaging....Jiles winds this gritty saga up on the eve of WWII with a patchwork quilt's worth of hope." (Publishers Weekly)
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- Brave New Chocolate
- 2021-01-19
I love this author, but this is my least favorite
Her books are beautiful, educational and moving, I'm so glad to have found her and I hope she writes many more books. I think I was a little dissatisfied with this book because I wanted it to be longer and the ending not wrapped up so quickly. Good characters, the heroine is very real, she's no disney princess. An enjoyable read.
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