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She faces the threat of prison while also discovering a forbidden love. Yet as Annie struggles to improve the future of her town, her husband becomes increasingly frustrated with her growing independence. So, when Annie decides to stand up for the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. The women labor in the houses of the elite, and send their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones aren’t coming home. 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. In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements has seen enough of the world to know that it’s unfair. From the bestselling and award-winning author of The Sparrow comes “historical fiction that feels uncomfortably relevant today” ( Kirkus Reviews) about “America’s Joan of Arc”-the courageous woman who started a rebellion by leading a strike against the largest copper mining company in the world.
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