Joads

Our joke was that one day, we'd hitch it up and move it to California like modern-day Joads.

Buoyancy DeMisty Bellinger 2011

Together again, Sokhom's father heard of work in Lowell, Mass., and like a modern incarnation of Joads from Steinbeck's classic novel the "Grapes of Wrath," the whole family set out across the country.

Daniel Heimpel: The Case For America's Investment In Foster Children Daniel Heimpel 2011

Together again, Sokhom's father heard of work in Lowell, Mass., and like a modern incarnation of Joads from Steinbeck's classic novel the "Grapes of Wrath," the whole family set out across the country.

Daniel Heimpel: The Case For America's Investment In Foster Children Daniel Heimpel 2011

Together again, Sokhom's father heard of work in Lowell, Mass., and like a modern incarnation of Joads from Steinbeck's classic novel the "Grapes of Wrath," the whole family set out across the country.

Daniel Heimpel: The Case For America's Investment In Foster Children Daniel Heimpel 2011

Together again, Sokhom's father heard of work in Lowell, Mass., and like a modern incarnation of Joads from Steinbeck's classic novel the "Grapes of Wrath," the whole family set out across the country.

Daniel Heimpel: The Case For America's Investment In Foster Children Daniel Heimpel 2011

Together again, Sokhom's father heard of work in Lowell, Mass., and like a modern incarnation of Joads from Steinbeck's classic novel the "Grapes of Wrath," the whole family set out across the country.

Daniel Heimpel: The Case For America's Investment In Foster Children Daniel Heimpel 2011

No one talks about the hilarious, laugh-out-loud adventures of the Joads, for instance.

Anis Shivani: Iowa Writers' Workshop Graduate Spills It All: Interview with John McNally, Author of "After the Workshop" 2010

Tough, too, were the sharecropping Joads of John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath," a tightly knit family sutured strong not just by their hardships but by their moving.

The Homeward Bound American 2010

No one talks about the hilarious, laugh-out-loud adventures of the Joads, for instance.

Anis Shivani: Iowa Writers' Workshop Graduate Spills It All: Interview with John McNally, Author of "After the Workshop" 2010

But, like the Joads, "We had meat tonight, not much but we had it."

Cooking in a Coffee Pot 2009