{"product_id":"reapers-of-the-dust-isbn-9781940436159","title":"Reapers of the Dust","description":"Lois Phillips Hudson is recognized as a major chronicler of America's agricultural heartland during the grim years of the Great Depression. Reapers of the Dust, now reprinted for a new generation of readers, vividly evokes that difficult time. From Hudson's childhood in North Dakota spring these unusual, moving stories of simple, joyful days, of continuing battles with hostile elements, and of a family's new life as migrant workers on the West Coast.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhile drawn from her own experiences growing up in North Dakota and migrating west during the Dust Bowl Diaspora, these stories are beautifully imagined and exquisitely rendered.   Hudson was well ahead of her time in the ways in which she blends reality and imagination and in so doing blurs the boundaries of each in ways that would become common practice among writers in the generations following her.  Her characters seem so real precisely because they are so perfectly crafted.  Hudson's experience certainly colors their world and shapes their character but they come fully and vividly alive only through the power of her art.\u003cb\u003eLois Phillips Hudson\u003c\/b\u003e (1927– 2010) was born in Jamestown, North Dakota on August 24, 1927 and migrated with her family to Washington State in 1935.  She taught at the University of Washington from 1969 to 1992.  A prolific writer, she is best remembered for her novel The Bones of Plenty, and the short story collection, \u003ci\u003eReapers of the Dust: A Prairie Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Guterson\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eEast of the Mountains\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eOur Lady of the Forest\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Other\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eEd King\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSnow Falling on Cedars\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the PEN\/Faulkner Award; a story collection, \u003ci\u003eThe Country Ahead of Us, the Country Behind\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eFamily Matters: Why Homeschooling Makes Sense\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives on Bainbridge Island in Washington State.","brand":"Counterpoint","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303642484965,"sku":"NP9781940436159","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781940436159.jpg?v=1767735487","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/reapers-of-the-dust-isbn-9781940436159","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}