A perceptive, non-sentimental approach captures those moments in
Miss Hudson's childhood when she acquired new awareness and could
feel herself growing up. These insights occurred sporadically
during the poverty-ridden years. Her family, driven from their
South Dakota farm by Depression and dust were forced to lead an
"Okie" existence as migratory workers. Despite the poverty, it was
a life that held humor, excitement, mystery, the frustrations of
the pre-adolescent tomboy and two very interesting grandmothers to
cope with and wonder about. The child becomes the woman with the
realization of eternal mystery - "As for the secrets, we inherit
them with the earth. The hidden is never revealed. Rather, it is
the lost secrets of the old people that give the earth its dreadful
beauty." (Kirkus Reviews)
Lois Phillips Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of
America's agricultural heartland during the grim years of the Great
Depression. "Reapers of the Dust," now reprinted for a new
generation of readers, vividly evokes that difficult time. From
Hudson's childhood in North Dakota spring these unusual, moving
stories of simple, joyful days, of continuing battles with hostile
elements, and of a family's new life as migrant workers on the West
Coast. "Hudson writes with grace and beauty and an abiding
understanding of the meaning of those bitter, tragic
years."--"Chicago Tribune" "These tales are to 'discomfit
civilization, ' in the tradition of personal accounts of the
settling of the West by such writers as Mari Sandoz, Wallace
Stegner, and Walter Van Tilburg Clark."--"The Nation"
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