At our July Not Fiction Book Discussion, we will explore the connections we see between the last several books we have read and Timothy Egan's National Book Award-winning The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl. During the 1930's, America's High Plains were swept by terrible dust storms that were the result of irresponsible agricultural practices combined with drought. The Dust Bowl is our nation's greatest environmental disaster--to date. We will read about and discuss this event from America's history in an attempt to understand how it happened and perhaps also how to be better stewards of our land and the food it provides in the future. Egan brings to life the Dust Bowl and the families and communities it affected through vivid historical reportage that, as a reviewer from the Cleveland Plain Dealer notes, "haunts a reader from the first pages." We invite you to join our discussion Tuesday, July 1 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Library's Meeting Room A or here on the blog.
"Haunts the reader," is a great way to put it. It's a gripping book and sobering in its implications. Cynthia
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