The Books Briefing: What Personal Letters Reveal About Human Struggles
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During the Dust Bowl in 1930s Oklahoma, a woman waiting out the droughton the farm she shared with her husband wrote to a friend across the country. Her dispatches on the agricultural crisis of the time—published in the May 1936 issue of —encapsulate their daily life in a matter-of-fact tone that belies the scope of the disaster.Letter-writing is anindividual realities of a distant era.
