Call Home the Heart
Original title: Call home the heart
earliest edition we have, 1983 The Feminist Press, 1983 462 pages
Novel of a pregnant girl from the North Carolina mountains, Ishma Waycaster, who left home to work in a mill town and found drabness and tragedy. In the mill town she becomes involved in union activity and a strike (modeled after the Gastonia Strike of 1929). Burke provides a remarkably honest portrayal of the conflicts between Ishma's sexual and emotional needs and her intellectual and political loyalties, and of th...
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