"My mother's side of the family are Okies. They are folks that came out to California during the Dust Bowl, survived all of the travails of being not wanted in California, and so I knew about personally from my own family.
Well, it's about something that I didn't know really almost existed. I'd sort of had the misunderstanding that when the Dust Bowl hit of that era, in the early 30's, late 20's, early 30's, I thought that everyone left that area -- Texas, Oklahoma -- and came to California. This is a book about all those who stayed, and this is a combination of personal narrative -- he focuses on maybe a half a dozen families -- it's a phenomenal book in that it is a book that can be written not but probably can't be written 20 years from now, which is to say the au -- "
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