STORMY WEATHER

Stormy Weather
by Paulette Jiles

Very interesting new author for me. The book seemed at times rather epic and long, but quite enthralling while delving into the depth of the main character. It was of a young woman's struggles during the great depression with her family of two sisters and her mother, and a gambling father in the wild west of the 1930's on. After reading about Mc Donald's cheap trash hamburgers and then reading about what these people ate during the Great Depression, I feel privileged I can eat beans at times. How soon do we Americans forget what real poverty is and the strength it can build in us as individuals. I admired this woman for her willingness to keep going forward and being true to her self by not marrying right away. She wanted to be self-sufficient and work hard a hard land. She endured her father's and then her mother's gambling, and her sister's illness and playing around and she continued to help support them. She remained true to herself and created what she wanted as well as a descent and loving man in due time. I know it seemed to me that women were not independent before the Woman's Liberation Movement, but I was just ignorant to not fully realize that our country continued to thrive during rough times because of women's back bones. They always have and always will give the family and towns it's true strength as long as the continue their feminine endurance.