Please join the Rotary Book Discussion Group for the discussion of the book The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. The book discussion will be led by Vivien Jennings and all Rotarians and guests are welcome.Date: Monday, May 12, 2025, 6:30 PM
Location: J. Wilbur Company
3242 Roanoke
Kansas City, MO 64111
About the book:
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, Deemed too old to marry in a time when being a wife is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she decides to change the direction of her life and makes an impulsive choice that ruins her reputation. Elsa is faced with only one respectable choice: marriage to Rafe Martinelli, a man she barely knows.
By 1934 the world has changed; millions are out of work, and drought has devasted the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail, water dries up, and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive.
