Stormy Weather

This is a beautifully written book even if the place (Texas during the drought-plagued Depression) and surroundings (wildcat oil fields and a family’s broken down farm house) were not. The lush language transported me to a place where I heard the sounds of wind, oil rigs, broken down trucks, town da......more

This is the first book in a long time that I couldn't put down and day-dreamed about almost every moment that I wasn't able to read it. Author Paulette Jiles drops you into a different time and place with wonderful, precise detail that I thoroughly enjoyed. I will also be thinking about the Texas-st......more

This is the story of 4 plucky women hanging together through life's difficult turns on the backdrop of the dust bowl oil fields of drought scarred Texas panhandle during the Great Depression. I liked it but it was not a particularly compelling read, I kept putting in down, yet it was also easy to pi......more

A believable story of one family's survival of the Great Depression in Texas. The characters are captivating and ones that you can really like. The author takes us through dust storms, into hot, dusty, cotton fields, poverty, the people trying to overcome it, triumphs and tragedy, among it the awake......more

What a lovely, lovely book. Paulette Jiles beautifully evokes Depression-era America in Dustbowl Texas, witnessed through the lives of four women—a mother and her three wonderfully compelling daughters. As she illuminates the desperation of families struggling with poverty and deprivation, she also......more