Holding the Line: A true story of female-led resilience from the bestselling author of Demon Copperhead

Barbara Kingsolver's book "Prodigal Summer" is a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983. It is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal, and a jaw-dropping and warm-hearted read about injustice. It is the true story of the families who held the line and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution.

Format: Hardback
Length: 320 pages
Publication date: 10 October 2024
Publisher: Faber & Faber

Barbara Kingsolver's "Demon Copperhead" is a true story of female-led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983, now available in the UK for the first time. It is a mesmerizing account of women finding their voices, a jaw-dropping and warm-hearted read about injustice, and a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal. Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families, recording stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives, sisters, and daughters. She saw rights she had taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about, as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them, or didn't care, or simply could not know. This book is the true story of the families who held the line and of Kingsolver's commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered themselves in their fight to keep their families from destitution. It is a story about the sparks that fly when the flint of force strikes against human mettle.

Weight: 430g
Dimension: 223 x 145 x 31 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780571392070
Edition number: Main