A Cup of Dust: A Novel of the Dust Bowl

by Susie Finkbeiner

“It’s just when a man’s done as much wrong as Pastor did in the old days, he wants to make sure he’s right with God. I think he’s so scared of being wrong, he’s got to be loud and holler to convince himself he ain’t going back to his old ways.”

Men couldn’t just cry like women did. I didn’t know why not, but that was the way of things. Sometimes they used a cuss word and an angry fist as their way of pushing out the scared or hurt that was inside them. Cussing was a man’s way of crying.