Author: John Steinbeck | Narrator: Dylan Baker
Runtime: 21h 10m | Genre: Classics, Historical Fiction, Social Commentary, Great Depression, Americana, Tragedy
The Joads are driven from their homestead in Oklahoma and forced to travel west to the promised land of California.
This is a road trip story fueled by desperation. The Joad family travels Route 66 to escape the Dust Bowl. Steinbeck’s prose has a rhythm that sounds like the Old Testament. The narrator captures the dialect and the dust. It is a heartbreaking look at poverty and resilience. It remains terrifyingly relevant today.