The last ballad
Subtitle: a novel
By: Wiley Cash
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780062313119
Subjects: Textile workers; Working mothers; Labor unions; Labor union members; Domestic fiction; Fiction
Description: "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"--

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"--