The Lost Traveler
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The Lost Traveler
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Alyssa Bresnahan
Summary
An autobiographical novel, long out of print, continues Sanora Babb's story as begun in her memoir, An Owl on Every Post. Set in Kansas in the early 1930s, it is a rich character study of a classic American individualist and his family. The father, a gambler, is a complex and magnetic man, portrayed from the perspective of his brave and proud daughter, Robin.
Against the dark background of his declining fortunes stand Robin's high spirits and intelligence as she experiences the turbulent emotions of first sexual love and rebels against the circumstances of the gambler's rambling life.
The novel's depiction of the Great Depression era and its lost families is one that will haunt listeners long after the final word. The author's first book manuscript was her Dust Bowl novel Whose Names Are Unknown, which Random House didn't publish because The Grapes of Wrath came out first.
Thus, The Lost Traveler, published in 1958, was her first published, and well-received, novel.
©1958 Sanora Babb (P)2026 Muse Ink Press