Of Mice and Men

It was a reading experience filled more with dread than joy, it's such a bleak story. I think I really like devastating stories about the downtrodden and the wretched and their broken dreams. So far every Steinbeck narrative about migrant workers during the Great Depression has been incredibly well-written; they're incredibly naturalistic, the stories are not concerned with being incredibly sentimental, and as such they are great expressions of raw humanity.