The Grapes of Wrath

What a powerful book. The particulars of the Joad family are vivid and heart rending, but Steinbeck really shines in the intermittent chapters that paint the broader picture of the period.

I don't know how I haven't read this book before now. But I'm so glad to be reading it now. It was a little eerie at times – we are (again) seeing the unhealthy concentration of wealth and the poor suffering from our knowing ignorance of the needs of the earth.