Publisher's Synopsis
In Four Winds, Elsa Martinelli finds herself living on a farm, loved and thriving, despite it being a hard life of challenges, getting on well with her in-laws, Tony and Rosa, particularly close to Rosa, with two children, Loreda and Ant. Elsa's son becomes gravely ill, and she must decide whether to stay it out and hope for an end to the present hell, or leave on a dangerous journey west to California.The Four Winds is a great story of few families trying to survive. I loved Elsa immediately, her fire and her weaknesses, and that I wanted so badly for her to urge her family to safety. When she moves to California, she finds herself and her children in poverty and hunger. Everyone there is prejudiced and that they don't welcome migrants there and that they call them Okies. Elsa was such a robust female character. She raises from her ashes by becoming a hard-working farmer and an excellent mother, she will do anything for the love of her kids.Her life can never be defined as a fairytale. Till her childhood times she has been forced to be a survivor, a fighter. She fought with serious illness, she worked hard to earn love of her parents who never respected or accepted who she is.
