Unspoken

<p><strong>Reminds me in tone of Texas classics like <em>The Time it Never Rained</em> and <em>Giant</em>. I loved it. Alexander is a great new talent in the genre of Texana. -W.F. Strong author <em>Stories From Texas</em> and radio commentator for NPR Texas</strong></p><p>A Farm Devastated. A Dream Destroyed. A Family Scattered. And One Texas Girl Determined to Salvage the Wreckage.</p><p>Ruby Lee Becker can't breathe. It's 1935 in the heart of the Dust Bowl and the Becker family has clung to its Texas Panhandle farm through six years of drought dying crops and dust storms. On Black Sunday the biggest blackest storm of them all threatens ten-year-old Ruby with deadly dust pneumonia and requires a drastic choice -one her mother Willa Mae will forever regret.</p><p>To survive Ruby is forced to leave the only place she's ever known. Far from home in Waco and worried her mother has abandoned her she's determined to get back.</p><p>Even after twelve years Willa Mae still clings to memories of her daughter. Unable to reunite with Ruby she's broken by their separation.</p><p>Through rollicking adventures and harrowing setbacks the tenacious Ruby Lee embarks on her perilous quest for home -and faces her one unspoken fear.</p><p>Heart-wrenching and inspiring the tale of Ruby Lee's dogged perseverance and Willa Mae's endless love for her daughter shines a light on women driven apart by disaster who bravely lean on one another find comfort in remade families and redefine what home means.</p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)><em>Unspoken </em>grabs your heart and doesn't let go. Ruby Lee Becker's silence is louder than any storm. The Texas Panhandle in <em>Unspoken</em> is tough country-storms drought loss-but Ruby meets it head-on. There's grit and grace here. <em>Unspoken </em>will stick around in your mind because legacy isn't just what's passed down. It's what you refuse to let slip away. -<em>Historical Novel Society EDITORS' CHOICE</em></strong></p>