The Grapes of Wrath: John Steinbeck

`To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains came gently, and they did not cut the scarred earth.`

Drought and economic depression are driving thousands from Oklahoma. As their land becomes just another strip in the dust bowl, the Joads, a family of sharecroppers, decide they have no choice but to follow. They head west, towards California, where they hope to find work and a future for their family. But while the journey to this promised land will take its inevitable toll, there remains uncertainty about what awaits their arrival . . .