Despised by her shallow parents and sisters for being sickly and unattractive-“too tall, too thin, too pale, too unsure of herself”-Elsa escapes their cruelty when a single night of abandon leads to pregnancy and forced marriage to the son of Italian immigrant farmers. There were times in my journey when I felt as if that penny and the hope it represented were the only things that kept me going.” We meet Elsa Wolcott in Dalhart, Texas, in 1921, on the eve of her 25th birthday, and wind up with her in California in 1936 in a saga of almost unrelieved woe.
“Hope is a coin I carry: an American penny, given to me by a man I came to love. The miseries of the Depression and Dust Bowl years shape the destiny of a Texas family.
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