The last ballad / Wiley Cash.

Summary:

Ella May Wiggins, a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together with the paltry nine dollars a week she earns from the textile mill two miles away, makes up her mind to join the labor union--a decision that will have lasting consequences for her children, her friends, her town, and all that she loves. Intertwining myriad voice, Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth-century America--and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers"-- Adapted from publisher information.

"The eagerly awaited next novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling A Land More Kind Than Home about a young mother desperately trying to hold her family together in the years before the Great Depression, a haunting and moving story of cowardice, courage and sacrifice"-- Provided by publisher.

Item details

ISBN: 9780062313119
ISBN: 0062313118
Physical Description: 378 pages : illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2017]

Contents / Notes

General Note:	Map on end papers.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.

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Wiggins, Ella May, 1900-1929 > Fiction.
Wiggins, Ella May, 1900-1929
Gastonia (N.C.) > Fiction.
Labor union members > North Carolina > Gastonia > 20th century > Fiction.
Textile workers > North Carolina > Gastonia > Fiction.
Working mothers > Fiction.
Textile workers > United States > 20th century > Fiction.
Textile workers > Labor unions > Fiction.
Labor union members > United States > 20th century > Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Textiles > Fiction.
FICTION > Literary.
FICTION > Suspense.
FICTION > General.
Domestic fiction.
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Textile workers > Labor unions.
Working mothers.
North Carolina > Gastonia.
United States.
Family life > Fiction.
North Carolina > Fiction.

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