Rachel Gorham’s Reviews > The Grapes of Wrath > Status Update

I had forgotten how much Steinbeck just DESTROYS you in this book. The little interstitial chapters especially. My HEART. Some of them are devastating poetry. I literally cried about the little girl and the horse. I caught my breath about the empty dead barns. I replayed the line "the fire sighed up and breathed over the box" twice just to marvel at the mind that put those words together in that order.