The children's blizzard : a novel

Benjamin, Melanie 1962- (author.).

Record details

ISBN: 0399182284 : HRD
ISBN: 9780399182297
ISBN: 9780399182280 : HRD
ISBN: 9780399182280
ISBN: 0399182284
Physical Description: print
pages ; cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : Delacorte Press, [2021]

Content descriptions

Summary, etc.:

"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling and foul there was no room to breathe, let alone dream. Come to Nebraska! Dakota Territory! Minnesota! Come to the Great Plains of America!"--