John Steinbeck: “Starvation Under the Orange Trees” Year: 1938
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https://doi.org/10.3735/9781961844209.book-part-031

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Abstract

There has been no war in California, no plague, no bombing of open towns and roads, no shelling of cities. It is a beautiful year. And thousands of families are starving in California. In the county seats the coroners are filling in “malnutrition” in the spaces left for “causes of death.” For some reason, a coroner shrinks from writing “starvation” when a thin child is dead in a tent.

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