Instead, she meets and sleeps with Rafe Martinelli. She feels restless and destined for spinsterhood. In 1921, Elsa Wolcott is a 25-year-old unmarried woman who is not particularly pretty and too tall for most men. The Four Winds is divided up into four sections, each detailing events from (roughly) that year. At 18, Loreda prepares to return to California to go to college.) Her daughter, Loreda, returns home to Texas. Elsa falls in love with a union organizer and helps to organize a strike against their bosses, but gets shot by the farm boss. When she's finally able to leave with her kids, they become migrant workers in California - which she quickly realizes is an exploitative system. She becomes a farmer with her husband's family, though he leaves them, and they struggle with the unending drought. (The one-paragraph version: During the Dust Bowl in the Texas Panhandle, Elsa Wolcott is a woman who dreams of going to college, but gets pregnant instead and has two kids.
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