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The Last Ballad

by Wiley Cash
Morrow. 2017. 384p. ISBN 9780062313119. $26.99; ebk. ISBN 9780062313133.
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Ella May depends on her job at a North Carolina textile mill to support her four children, but when a union organizer approaches her, she decides to join the fight for better working conditions and better pay. Cash portrays the drama and anguish of the American labor movement through one woman's grueling fight for justice. (LJ 8/17)
Reviewed by Staff , Jan 02, 2019
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