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Stormy weather by Jiles, Paulette is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
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From Paulette Jiles, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of *Enemy Women*, comes a poignant and unforgettable story of hardship, sacrifice, and strength in a tragic time—and of 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—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks; that is, when he's not spending his meager earnings at gambling joints, race tracks, and dance halls. And in every small town in which the windblown family settles, 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 family's fortunes sink further than they ever anticipated 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, proud and stubborn, who single
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Jiles, Paulette
- Publisher
- HarperCollins e-books
- Published
- 2007
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780061752889
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Rating
- 4.4 / 5 (821 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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