Southern Labor Studies Association - Labor and Working-Class Fiction

Labor and Working-Class Fiction

Wiley Cash’s Top Ten List of Novels About Working Class Lives in the South

Of Love and Dust by Ernest J. Gaines Bastard out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons Clover by Dori Sanders

Cane by Jean Toomer Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk by Ben Fountain Return the Innocent Earth by Wilma Dykeman Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Storming Heaven by Denise Giardina In Country by Bobbie Ann Mason

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