Evening Book Club: The Women of the Copper Country

This month we discuss The Women of the Copper Country by Mary Doria Russell.

"In July 1913, twenty-five-year-old Annie Clements had seen enough of the world to know that it was unfair. She's spent her whole life in the copper-mining town of Calumet, Michigan, where men risked their lives for meager salaries and had barely enough to put food on the table and clothes on their backs. The women labored in the houses of the elite, and sent their husbands and sons deep underground each day, dreading the fateful call of the company man telling them their loved ones weren't coming home. When Annie decides to stand up for herself and the entire town of Calumet, nearly everyone believes she may have taken on more than she is prepared to handle. In Annie's hands lie the miners' fortunes and their health, her husband's wrath over her growing independence, and her own reputation as she faces the threat of prison and discovers a forbidden love. On her fierce quest for justice, Annie discovers just how much she is willing to sacrifice for her own independence and the families of Calumet."