To Make My Bread by Grace Lumpkin - 9781590774366

To Make My BreadAuthor(s): Grace Lumpkin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield, United States\nImprint: M. Evans& Co Inc\nISBN-13: 9781590774366, 978-1590774366\nSynopsis\nThis classic novel, written in the midst of the Great Depression, translates the themes of Balzac to a Southern Appalachian setting. Lumpkin traces the path of the McClure family as they move from living as poor bootleggers in the mountains to living in a mill town, earning a pittance as factory workers. The McClures are navigating the treacherous path of industrialization without a safety net, even as the entire country reels with the effects of the Depression.\n\nLumpkin weaves a story in poetic mountains speech, moving through powerful religious experiences, through lawless love, and reaching a tremendous climax in a mill strike waged with all the desperation of a life and death struggle. Without literary tricks or devices she achieves tremendous emotional effects through sincerity and real.