Stormy Weather, Paulette Jiles
Stormy Weather, Paulette Jiles
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Stormy Weather

Author: Paulette Jiles

Narrator: Colleen Delany

Unabridged: 11 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/08/2007

Categories: Fiction


Synopsis

From Paulette Jiles comes a poignant and unforgettable story of hardship, sacrifice, and strength in a tragic time—and a desperate dream born of an undying faith in the arrival of a better day.Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks. And in every small town, mother Elizabeth does her level best to make each sparse, temporary house they inhabit a home.But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, and the family's fortunes sink further when a questionable ""accident"" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times. With no choice left to them, they return to the abandoned family farm.It is Jeanine Stoddard who devotes herself to rebuilding the farm and their lives. But hard work and good intentions won't make ends meet. In desperation, the Stoddard women place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well and on the back of late patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe. And Jeanine must decide if she will gamble it all . . . on love.

About Paulette Jiles

Paulette Jiles is a novelist, poet, and memoirist. She is the author of Cousins, a memoir, and the novels Enemy Women, Stormy Weather, The Color of Lightning, Lighthouse Island, Simon the Fiddler, and News of the World, which was a finalist for the 2016 National Book Award. She lives on a ranch near San Antonio, Texas.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Heidi on December 21, 2024

This is a beautifully written book even if the place (Texas during the drought-plagued Depression) and surroundings (wildcat oil fields and a family’s broken down farm house) were not. The lush language transported me to a place where I heard the sounds of wind, oil rigs, broken down trucks, town da......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on March 09, 2012

This is the first book in a long time that I couldn't put down and day-dreamed about almost every moment that I wasn't able to read it. Author Paulette Jiles drops you into a different time and place with wonderful, precise detail that I thoroughly enjoyed. I will also be thinking about the Texas-st......more

Goodreads review by Linda on April 15, 2019

This is the story of 4 plucky women hanging together through life's difficult turns on the backdrop of the dust bowl oil fields of drought scarred Texas panhandle during the Great Depression. I liked it but it was not a particularly compelling read, I kept putting in down, yet it was also easy to pi......more

Goodreads review by Carol on November 13, 2021

A believable story of one family's survival of the Great Depression in Texas. The characters are captivating and ones that you can really like. The author takes us through dust storms, into hot, dusty, cotton fields, poverty, the people trying to overcome it, triumphs and tragedy, among it the awake......more

Goodreads review by Map on December 08, 2008

What a lovely, lovely book. Paulette Jiles beautifully evokes Depression-era America in Dustbowl Texas, witnessed through the lives of four women—a mother and her three wonderfully compelling daughters. As she illuminates the desperation of families struggling with poverty and deprivation, she also......more