GRAPES OF WRATH John Larison It is the summer of

It is the summer of 1869

and Zélie's Reaper mother summoned forth souls

roiling rivers and merciless Indians

Carter Sickels's stunning literary achievement deserves a place in the canon of AIDS literature alongside the likes of Larry Kramer and Rebecca Makkai (Los Angeles Review of Books)

including their mothers who both fled El Salvador during the war

GRAPES OF WRATH John Larison It is the summer ofThe Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression, a book that galvanized and sometimes outraged millions of readers. Nominated as one of America's best loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read A Penguin Classic First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads driven from their homestead and