Lois Phillips Hudson eloquently portrays George Custer, a determined and angry man who must battle both the land and the landlord; his hard-working wife Rachel; and their young and vulnerable daughter Lucy. Through their compelling story looms a sense of a whole nation's tragedy during the Great Depression.
"At her best, Lois Phillips Hudson can make the American Ordeal of the 1930's so real that you can all but feel the gritty dust in your teeth."
Omaha World-Herald
"It is possible…that literary historians of the future will decide that The Bones of Plenty was the farm novel of the Great Drought of the 1920's and 1930's and The Great Depression. Better than any other novel of the period with which I am familiar, Lois Phillips Hudson's story presents, with intelligence and rare understanding, the frightful disaster that closed thousands of rural banks and drov
New York Times Book Review
"Hudson does a superb job of revealing the physcial texture of farm life on the prairie--its sounds, smells, colors, sensations. Then she goes further, examining the spiritual texture as well. Her characters are bound to each other and to their land in a kind of harsh intimacy from which there is no relief. Weather, poverty, anger, and pride are the forces that drive them and ultimately wear them
