Johnnie Consadine is born into a poor mountain household where her great-uncle Pros Passmore has to borrow a broken cradle for her. Grown up, she comes down from the hills to work in the cotton mills of a Southern factory town, where she meets child labour, class contempt and Gray Stoddard, a cultivated mill man whose friendship stirs a love she believes she has no right to.
A warm, socially aware novel of 1910 that gives mill workers and mountain people real dignity and voice. Download the free EPUB.