Listen to the Summary of Timothy Egan's Breaking Blue in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. In 1935, the American West and midsection experienced a drought that only God in the foulest of Old Testament moods was capable of causing. The land died, and barely a half-century after the first white farmers cut the ground with plow blades, the earth dried up and gathered itself into amber clouds of airborne dust...