"I'd rather fail in story writing than succeed in anything else," Josephine Herbst declared in 1913. The Iowa native's Trexler family trilogy, with Pity Is Not Enough as its first volume, shows clearly that Herbst in fact succeeded ...
In the conclusion of the Trexler trilogy, the shadow of the Depression darkens America, affecting men and women of all walks of life, in a realistic portrait of the political, economic, and social upheaval of the 1930s...