THE GRAPES OF WRATH
I am visiting South Africa with my daughter and staying with the in-laws. It's alright, but there is no unlimited wifi in Granny’s house. Johannesburg is a big cosmopolitan city, every suburb is kilometers from another one, and having a car makes getting around pretty easy. I went to visit my friend who teaches in a high school nearby. I visited her and asked if she had any books for me to read to kill time. I picked two books, one of which was a book by an author named John Steinbeck. It looked quite worn out and old, and I assumed it was perhaps written by one of the local South African authors. It had been over a decade since I read a big fiction novel. The story takes place in the United States in the 1930s. I found the book extremely descriptive. The first hundred pages describe the situation of the Joad family on their farm and home. Tom Joad, who had served in prison, is released, and he comes to his hometown and finds that his family is forced to leave their home an...
