I will send rain

Resource Information

The work I will send rain represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Pekin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

I will send rain

Statement of responsibility

Rae Meadows

Creator

• Meadows, Rae

Author

• Meadows, Rae

Subject

• Domestic fiction
• Droughts
• Droughts -- Fiction
• Dust Bowl Era (1931-1939)
• Dust Bowl Era, 1931-1939 -- Fiction
• FICTION -- Historical
• Farm life
• Farm life -- Oklahoma -- Fiction
• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Historical fiction
• Large type books
• Oklahoma
• Rural families
• Rural families -- Oklahoma -- Fiction
• 1931-1939
• Domestic fiction

Genre

• Historical fiction
• Fiction
• Domestic fiction

Language

eng

Summary

Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in the barn, in the corners of her children's dry, cracked lips. It's 1934 and the Bell farm in Mulehead, Oklahoma is struggling as the earliest storms of The Dust Bowl descend. All around them the wheat harvests are drying out and people are packing up their belongings as storms lay waste to the Great Plains. As the Bells wait for the rains to come, Annie and each member of her family are pulled in different directions. Annie's fragile young son, Fred, suffers from dust pneumonia; her headstrong daughter, Birdie, flush with first love, is choosing a dangerous path out of Mulehead; and Samuel, her husband, is plagued by disturbing dreams of rain. As Annie, desperate for an escape of her own, flirts with the affections of an unlikely admirer, she must choose who she is going to become

Member of

• Thorndike Press large print basic series

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

813/.6

Index

no index present

LC call number

PS3613.E15

LC item number

I2 2016b

Literary form

fiction

Series statement

Thorndike Press large print basic