Now in November - Josephine Johnson

[Luke]

Now in November, Josephine Johnson, 1934, United States, NOVEL

"...Like John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath (published several years later), it portrays the unrelenting harshness of hard work an drought set against the life-giving beauty of the land and the fierce determination of its people. Margaret, the narrator, and her family come to the farm when she is a young girl; ten years later she tells of her family's fight to pay off their mortgage and keep their land: "There was a bitterness in sowing and reaping, no matter how good the crop might be...when all it meant was the privilege of doing this over again and nothing to show but a little mark on paper."..."

(E.B., p. 258)