Stormy Weather - Paulette Jiles
Category: General Fiction
Tags: General Fiction, Literature, Adults
Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersDate: May 2007 Duration: 11 hours 59 minutes, Summary: From Paulette Jiles comes a poignant and unforgettable story of hardship, sacrifice, and strength in a tragic timeand a desperate dream born of an undying faith in the arrival of a better day., Oil is king of 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, 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 familys 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 rebuildi
