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★★☆☆☆
A cross between The Grapes of Wrath and The Jungle. And not in a good way.
If I had to read one more chapter about how downtrodden and virtuous the migrants and unionizers in 1930s California were, and how evil and greedy everyone else was, I was going to scream. I finished the book because I kept hoping the last third of the story would start moving beyond how awesome Communism in America in the 1930s was, but no such luck.
I started reading this because I kept hearing how good Kristin Hannah's books were. If she's this overwrought with all of her stories, I'll pass on the others. I'm giving two stars instead of one because the first quarter to a third of the book was actually pretty well-written.
