num_pages: 352
description: In July 1913 twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. Shes spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet Michigan where men risk their lives for meager salariesand had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labor in the houses of the elite and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones arent coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself and the entire town of Calumet nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. In Annies hands lie the miners fortunes and their health her husbands wrath over her growing independence and her own reputation as she faces the threat of prison and discovers a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice Annie will discover just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her own independence and the families of Calumet. From one of the most versatile writers in contemporary fiction this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the men and women of the early 20th century labor movement and of a turbulent violent political landscape that may feel startlingly relevant to today.
language: English
title: The Women of the Copper Country
publisher: Atria Books