52 - The Grapes Of Wrath Part One (with Andy Matthews and Alasdair Tremblay-Birchall)
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'Plum to Squash'
The book is written in a range of styles, but they give a snap, a snapshot of the situation and just paint a wider picture. It mostly follows tom jod's journey, but it also is interinterspersed with te little prose poems that explain the widest circumstances of the world around the characters we are following. The first one explains the background of the farmers in the area, including the jod family. They used to own the land, but then when the drought struck, they had to sell it back to the bank to survive,. But then the dust bowl hit, and now they can't afford the rent at all. And they're just told by the banks to go west
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