About this Event
Join the Chandler Museum Book Club!
Staff at Chandler Museum and Chandler Public Library have come together to choose a mix of fiction and non-fiction that expand on topics from the exhibition, Picturing Home: Dust Bowl Migrants in Chandler.
Whether you've been following along since last year, or saw a single book that caught your eye--join us to imagine living in the Dust Bowl era, learn more about the land, and more!
Connect with other readers during in-person discussions led my Museum Staff Kristine Clark and Librarian Anbolyn Potter.
Future books include: Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck, and Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
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About The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan:
"This National Award Book Award-winning story, a tour de force of historical reportage, rescues an iconic chapter of American history--the Dust Bowl that terrorized the High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression--from the shadows.
Following a dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, Egan tells of their desperate attempts to carry on through blinding black dust blizzards, crop failure, and the death of loved ones. Brilliantly capturing the terrifying drama of catastrophe, Egan does equal justice to the human characters who become his heroes, "the stoic, long-suffering men and women whose lives he opens up with urgency and respect" (New York Times).
In an era that promises ever-greater natural disasters, The Worst Hard Time is "arguably the best nonfiction book yet" (Austin Statesman Journal) on the greatest environmental disaster ever to be visited upon our land and a powerful cautionary tale about the dangers of trifling with nature."
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Chandler Museum, 300 South Chandler Village Drive, Chandler, United States
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