four winds

A Story of Family, Survival, and Belonging Author: Kristin Hannah Elsa is the sick one. The dowdy one. The forgotten sister. The unwanted child. When she makes a new red dress and has one night on the town, her parents shun her and give the few good things she has to her siblings. When it is revealed that she is pregnant by an engaged, Italian farmer, her family is done with her for good, dropping her at the Martinelli farm where her future becomes inextricable with the land. Rafe, the lover, loses his engagement, his chance at a college education, his [...]