So Big
by Edna Ferber
355 pages~6 hrs
“In a world of mud and toil, she dared to see the gold.”
Selina Peake DeJong defies her high-society roots to forge a life of grit and grace in the rugged truck farms of Illinois. This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic follows a mother’s fierce determination to find beauty in the soil while her son faces the seductive lure of material success in a rapidly changing Chicago.
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