The people in flight from the terror behind-strange things happen to them, some bitterly cruel and some so beautiful that the faith is refired forever.

“No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose …”

“Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose …”

“To the red country and part of the gray country of Oklahoma, the last rains cam…”

“And the great owners, who must lose their land in an upheaval, the great owners…”