Lisa offers two titles for California: John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath and Wallace Stegner's Angle of Respose.
Thanks, Lisa, you have come up with a couple of very good books. Grapes of Wrath is set mostly in California, after the road trip of the Joads from the dustbowl.
I had to look up Angle of Repose because I was remembering it taking place in other parts of the west. Actually, Lyman Ward's grandparents were in three states (Colorado, California, and Idaho), plus Mexico.
