Shattered Dreams: Stories of the South We Knew - Stephen A and Marcia W Graham

5.5" x 8.5" (13.97 x 21.59 cm) Black & White on White paper504 pagesISBN-13: 978-1512162684 ISBN-10: 151216268X BISAC: Fiction / Historical / General Three dreams, two of which come from the pages of history, are the subject of three novellas that comprise this book. The subject of the first novella, The Picker Stick, is a dream embraced by hundreds of thousands of mill workers from the southeastern Piedmont. Theirs was the vision of a more just and secure life that propelled the largest labor strike in United States history, the Uprising of ’34. This historical event is the setting of the story, although the characters are imaginary. Intensely personal, the second novella, Chasing Rainbows, is based on Marcia’s fictionalized recollections of her mother’s dream of living her senior year in high school in a small textile mill village in the foothills of North Carolina during the 1930s and 1940s. The events of the third novella, The Wrath of the Lamb, occur five years after Martin Lu