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  • Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: M. Evans & Company (June 30, 2014)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1590774361
  • ISBN-13: 978-1590774366
  • Product Dimensions: 5.1 x 1.1 x 7.6 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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4.0 out of 5 starsSurviving in the industrial South
By Milan Smith on January 20, 2013
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The Kirkland family had lived in the mountains for generations, often struggling, but always independent and stubborn. Grandpap Kirkland fought in the Civil War, raised a family, and now his daughter, Emma McClure, is trying to raise hers. After Grandpap's wife dies, he goes to live with Emma, who's husband dies a few months before her twins, John and Bonnie are born. The year is 1900.

Over the next dozen or so years, the Kirkland clan try to survive through farming and running moonshine, but they barely ever get by. One year they nearly starve to death. As Emma's oldest sons grow up, one is killed and the other leaves home. Life only gets harder in the mountains, and Emma sees no future for her children there. Upon finding that more and more people are leaving for the mills, with the promise of high wages and school for the children, the family decides to leave the mountains and try it themselves.

But, it doesn't go well. Though still strong, Grandpap is told he's too old to work, so he heads back for the mountains, leaving Emma alone with John and Bonnie. Then the mill pays less than promised and soon even the children have to work just to get by, robbing them of their chance for going to school. After spending time in prison for running liquor, Grandpap comes back to live with Emma, and in time gets a job in the mill as a night watchman. Years pass, the older generation gives way to the younger, and John and Bonnie become adults and have families of their own.

While the first half of the book shows the daily hardships of life in the mountains, and what drove them to leave in the first place, the second half shows the way workers' lives revolve around the mills, and the way they are used up and thrown away when they're no longer useful.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 starsIt is a GREAT book!
By A Customer on May 5, 1999
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I had never heard of Grace Lumpkin until a friend of mine took a Southern Women Writer's course. She suggested I read To Make My Bread. The book outlines the struggles people from Appalachia had to contend with while trying to reform labor problems. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in learning more about the formation of unions in the South.
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