Billie Jo is fourteen and loves to play the piano. It is dry out. It has been dry for three years. The ground is nothing but dust, blowing everywhere, covering everything, in their food, their mouths, no place is free. Yet her farmer father still hopes for rain for his wheat crop; her mother, pregnant, questions her husband's decision but stands by him. Then there is a terrible accident. Billie Jo's mother is dead. Her father is numb. Her wounded hands are unable to play the music that might comfort her.
The moving prose of Hesse strikes the heart of the reader, painting a vivid picture of a young girl's life during this period, a novel of forgiveness. A must read, based on factual information. Sandy Penton.
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