Octavio Solis’s Reviews > The Grapes of Wrath > Status Update

Astonishing. Still an epic, prescient book. I rode that line the Joads ride to California, from Sallisaw, OK to Bakersfield, CA, all the while rereading this masterwork, and I felt the fiction transformed into fact. Hyperbole turned to history. Literature became literal. I saw many Tim Joads along the way, many Mas, many Rose of Sharons, in the eyes of people I met on this Steinbeck hajj.