The Women of the Copper Country

In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements has seen enough of the world to know that it's unfair.  She's spent her whole life in the mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risk their lives for meager salaries - and have barely enough to put food on the table for their families.  The women labor in the houses of the elite and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call from the company man telling them their loved ones aren't coming home.  So, when Annie decides to stand up for the entire town of Calumet, angering her husband with her newfound independence, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle.

From one of the most versatile writer in contemporary fiction, this novel is an authentic and moving historical portrait of the lives of the crucial men and women of the early labor movement, "with an important message that will resonate with contemporary readers" (Booklist).