First published in 1939, Steinbeck's Pulitzer Prize winning epic of the Great Depression chronicles the Dust Bowl migration of the 1930s and tells the story of one Oklahoma farm family, the Joads, driven from their homestead and forced to travel west to the promised land of California. Out of their trials and their repeated collisions against the hard realities of an America divided into haves and have nots evolves a drama that is intensely human...

Robin finds a haven from the world and the confusion she feels in the velvet room of the deserted McGurdy mansion. The story is set in California during the American Great Depression.

Flora's Money combines escapades of fictional characters, honest and strayed, with actual events from those troubled and quirky times of Prohibition and the Great Depression.