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When Melinda Kregg, a young southern belle, witnesses the bloody Kentucky mining strikes of the 1930s, her innocence is shattered. This saga chronicles her joys, sorrows, and ministrations to the social wound on her journey through the maelstrom of the twentieth century. A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year. Awarded the 1995 Lillian Smith Book Award.
Paperback, 448 pages
Published
May 13th 1996
by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
(first published May 1995)
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The history was interesting. I shamefacedly admit that I didn't know that there was a Spanish Civil War shortly before WWII. Nor do I understand the continued focus on Communism as the bogeyman when there are gruesome dictatorships, fascism and horrors galore. I am not promoting Communism (in any way whatsoever!), but it seems to me to be the kind of system that left alone topples of its own weight. I could be wrong. So what am I trying to say? People shouldn't have to die for this stuff, ...more
This is a great book, especially for women, because the main character dares to pursue a non-tradtional life, but she is not portrayed as some sort of super heroine. In the course of reading this book I also learned about some fragments of history, such as the Spanish Civil War and the Kentucky coal strikes, that were barely mentioned in history class ( maybe because they were considered to be to "lefty). I would recommend this to those trying to read outside the box.
Mary Lee Settle is an author Nancy Pearl recommends, I had never heard of her. This is my second Settle book, I'm going to try to read all of them. What an outstanding author! I wasn't sure if I could get into the book-I wasn't familiar with the Spanish Civil War. I actually was misty eyed during the last chapter. Settle passed away a couple of years ago, she's too good an author to forget.
I found this book fast moving and a wonderful read.
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