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One essential book?
"The Grapes of Wrath",
published in 1939 by John Steinbeck, is a landmark novel that explores the plight of American farmers during the Great Depression and a book I would recommend to anyone. The story follows the Joad family as they are forced off their Oklahoma farm and travel to California in search of work and opportunity.
Steinbeck's powerful depiction of the struggles faced by the disenfranchised poor won him the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and contributed to his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1962. The novel's themes of social injustice, family bonds, and the resilience of the human spirit continue to resonate, making "The Grapes of Wrath" a significant piece of American literary history.
