Dec 29, 2009

The Grapes of Wrath | What Do I Read Next?

In Dubious Battle (1936) is John Steinbeck’s first book of a trilogy by the author that looks at the migrant labor problem in the 1930s. The novel focuses on labor organizers and a strike in California’s apple fields. The book caused controversy when it was published.
Of Mice and Men (1937) is the second book in Steinbeck’s trilogy of migrant farmers. It is about two migrants, one who is mentally handicapped, and how their dreams of a better life can never be...