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100 1  Cash, Wiley,|eauthor. 
245 14 The last ballad :|ba novel|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /
       |cWiley Cash. 
250    Unabridged. 
264  1 [United States] :|bHarperAudio,|c2017. 
264  2 |bMade available through hoopla 
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511 0  Read by Karen White and Elizabeth Wiley. 
520    The New York Times bestselling author of the celebrated A 
       Land More Kind Than Home and This Dark Road to Mercy 
       returns with this eagerly awaited new novel, set in the 
       Appalachian foothills of North Carolina in 1929 and 
       inspired by actual events. The chronicle of an ordinary 
       woman's struggle for dignity and her rights in a textile 
       mill, The Last Ballad is a moving tale of courage in the 
       face of oppression and injustice, with the emotional power
       of Ron Rash's Serena, Dennis Lehane's The Given Day, and 
       the unforgettable films Norma Rae and Silkwood. Twelve 
       times a week, twenty-eight-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes
       the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift 
       at American Mill No. 2 in Bessemer City, North Carolina. 
       The insular community considers the mill's owners the 
       newly arrived Goldberg brothers white but not American and
       expects them to pay Ella May and other workers less 
       because they toil alongside African Americans like Violet,
       Ella May's best friend. While the dirty, hazardous job at 
       the mill earns Ella May a paltry nine dollars for seventy-
       two hours of work each week, it;s the only opportunity she
       has. Her no-good husband, John, has run off again, and she
       must keep her four young children alive with whatever work
       she can find. When the union leaflets begin circulating, 
       Ella May has a taste of hope, a yearning for the better 
       life the organizers promise. But the mill owners, backed 
       by other nefarious forces, claim the union is nothing but 
       a front for the Bolshevik menace sweeping across Europe. 
       To maintain their control, the owners will use every means
       in their power, including bloodshed, to prevent workers 
       from banding together. On the night of the county's 
       biggest rally, Ella May, weighing the costs of her choice,
       makes up her mind to join the movement a decision that 
       will have lasting consequences for her children, her 
       friends, her town indeed all that she loves. Seventy-five 
       years later, Ella May's daughter Lilly, now an elderly 
       woman, tells her nephew about his grandmother and the 
       events that transformed their family. Illuminating the 
       most painful corners of their history, she reveals, for 
       the first time, the tragedy that befell Ella May after 
       that fateful union meeting in 1929.Intertwining myriad 
       voices, Wiley 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. 
       Lyrical, heartbreaking, and haunting, this eloquent novel 
       confirms Wiley Cash's place among our nation's finest 
       writers. 
538    Mode of access: World Wide Web. 
650  0 Working mothers|vFiction. 
650  0 Textile workers|zUnited States|y20th century|vFiction. 
650  0 Textile workers|xLabor unions|vFiction. 
650  0 Labor union members|zUnited States|y20th century|vFiction.
650  1 Textiles|vFiction.|0sj 96006245 
655  7 Historical fiction.|2gsafd 
700 1  White, Karen|q(Karen Elizabeth),|enarrator. 
700 1  Wiley, Elizabeth,|d1962 April 21-|enarrator. 
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