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Set in the Texas Panhandle during the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl era, UNSPOKEN is perfect for historical fiction lovers to devour, for Texans to uncover their hidden history, and for book clubs everywhere to dissect and discuss.
About UNSPOKEN
A NOVEL BY JANN ALEXANDER
A Farm Devastated. A Dream Destroyed. A Family Scattered.
And One Texas Girl Determined to Salvage The Wreckage.
Ruby Lee Becker can’t breathe. It’s 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought, dying crops, and dust storms. On Black Sunday, the biggest blackest storm of them all threatens ten-year-old Ruby with deadly dust pneumonia and requires a drastic choice—one her mother, Willa Mae, will forever regret.
To survive, Ruby’s forced to leave the only place she’s ever known. Far from home in Waco, and worried her mother’s abandoned her, she’s determined to get back.
Even after twelve years, Willa Mae still clings to memories of her daughter. Unable to reunite with Ruby, she’s broken by their separation.
Through rollicking adventures and harrowing setbacks, the tenacious Ruby Lee embarks on her perilous quest for home—and faces her one unspoken fear.
Heart-wrenching and inspiring, the tale of Ruby Lee’s dogged perseverance and Willa Mae’s endless love for her daughter is drawn from what countless Texas daughters and mothers endured in the 1930s and 1940s. UNSPOKEN shines a light on women driven apart by disaster who bravely lean on one another, find comfort in remade families, and redefine what home means.
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