I was looking forward to this book, as I had picked up Wiley Cash's A Land More Kind Than Home a while back, but hadn't read it yet, so I was really excited to read him for the first time with his latest novel.
The story intrigued me as well, a fictional account of the real life struggles of civil rights and union rights.
The story moved rather slowly, but it felt right. There were a lot of characters introduced and the whole situation was a simmering time; in actuality, simmering over years. Cash did a great job of giving names and faces to those involved in the early and violent labor movement. Even with the many characters, Cash kept everything connected for the reader. Showing the necessity of unions, or at the very least, workers' rights and the risk that so many took to stand up for those rights. The continued struggle of African Americans who lived, worked and struggled just as their white co-workers but still were not included in rights of any kind.
Looking forward to putting A Land More Kind Than Home on the top of my TBR and to Mr. Cash's next endeavor.
Quote: "'It ain't right for a woman to have to give herself away just so she can get a job that don't hardly pay enough to live on.'"
No comments:
Post a Comment