National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winning novel set during the Great Depression. It focuses on the Joad family, poor tenant farmers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, agricultural industrial changes, and bank foreclosures. Due to their nearly hopeless situation, and in part because they are trapped in the Dust Bowl, the Joads set out for California along with thousands of other “Okies” seeking jobs, land, dignity, and a future. (Fiction, Adult)