The Children's Blizzard - A Novel

"They came on boats, on trains, great unceasing waves of them-the poor, the disenfranchised, the seekers, the dreamers. Second and third generations of farmers eking out an existence on scraps of farms divided up among too many sons. Political agitators no longer welcome in their homelands. Young men fleeing conscription in a king's army. Married couples starting out. Bachelors from towns with few women. The poor in tenements with air so stifling and foul there was no room to breathe, let alone dream. Come to Nebraska! Dakota Territory! Minnesota! Come to the Great Plains of America!"--

About the author

Melanie Benjamin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Children’s Blizzard, Mistress of the Ritz, The Girls in the Picture, The Swans of Fifth Avenue, The Aviator's Wife, The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb, and Alice I Have Been. Benjamin lives in Chicago, Illinois, where she is at work on her next historical novel.

Product details

• Authors: Melanie Benjamin
• Publisher: Bantam Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.01.2022
• EAN: 9780399182303
• ISBN: 978-0-399-18230-3
• No. of pages: 384
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 203 mm x 20 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature