Whose Names Are Unknown
Book description
Sanora Babb's long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells an intimate story of the High Plains farmers who fled drought dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers' plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author's firsthand experience.
This clear-eyed and unsentimental story centers on…
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Why read it?
1 author picked Whose Names Are Unknown as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
All readers who love The Grapes of Wrath (as I do), owe it to themselves and this author to read this stunning novel.
Sanora Babb wrote it in the 1930s from her own experiences with displacement and poverty during the Dust Bowl, and it was set to be published at that time but was suddenly shelved because Steinbeck’s book appeared on the horizon. He had worked from her journals to create his masterpiece.
Babb’s manuscript was finally published in 2004, a striking, poignantly written story of a family determined to survive in the face of an absolute cataclysm.