The second pick in our new fortnightly book club, this 1939 American epic asks what is it to become an immigrant, writes Annie Lord
farm by a drought that has turned the once-fertile soil to dust. Hungry, poor and homeless, the Joads join thousands of others trekking down Route 66 in search of the fruit fields of California, whose vast swathes of green pasture promise them a better life.
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