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A white man saying he’s equal to a Black man AND saying he wants the Black man’s respect…in a book written in 1938-1939?! No wonder they said they couldn’t publish another book about the Dust Bowl after Grapes of Wrath, why publish a more progressive book when you could just hype up the very white one instead.

I understand that this book is often considered “unsentimental” but there’s so much heart in the deceptively simple prose that I can’t help but feel for this family.