“The Grapes of Wrath” by John Steinbeck

May 9, 2018 | S:3 E:7

S3 Ep 7

Host: Frank Lavallo

Readers: Scott and Ildi Rich

Endnotes: Ted Schwartz

Author: John Steinbeck

Year of Publication: 1939

Plot: The Grapes of Wrath centers around a poor family of tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and bank foreclosures with hints of a hopeful future beyond the Dust Bowl.

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