Oh no I loved it and have a glowing review written in my techō but then I found out that not only was another writer's research snarfed in making this, Steinbeck also supported and advocated for the war in Karelia that took everything from my family in the thirties. (I mean I wouldn't've been born if that hadn't happened but it still stings in spite of that.) I was like this is such a good depiction of how the market behemoth wrecks lives with no human at the wheel, the tractor appropriations such an interesting parallel to the brutal Soviet communalizations etc etc and then he couldn't see that he was supporting the same thing. I wanted to give the book to some family members saying see how closely this matches up with our own oral history. But now I don't want to since Steinbeck IRL was a cheerleader of that particular "special operation". Also the translation was so good but then the translation notes had anti-Apache stereotypes. so tiresome