The most they ever had
(Playaway)

Title from Playaway label.

Release date supplied by publisher.

Previously released by Blackstone Audio, Inc., p2009.

Issued on Playaway, a dedicated audio media player.

In container (21 x 13 x 3 cm.)

One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for playback.

Read by the author.

These real-life stories brilliantly evoke the hardscrabble lives of those who lived and died by an American cotton mill. In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and logging chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The mill had become almost a living thing, rewarding the hard working and careful with the best payday they ever had but punishing the careless and clumsy, taking a finger, a hand, or more. They served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers.