Music of the Mill

<p>In a stunning literary achievement -- with a power and scope reminiscent of John Steinbeck -- Luis J. Rodriguez captures the soul of a community in this epic novel about love family workers' rights industrial strife and cultural dislocation</p><p>As the World War II cultural and industrial boom birthed a new California a mighty steel industry rose with the potential to make modest dreams real for the workers willing to risk their lives in the mill's ferocious heat.</p><p>For the Salcidos the Nazareth mill became an engine for survival. Luis J. Rodriguez chronicles the simultaneous evolutions of this American family and the enormous enterprise that drove them -- from optimistic and cohesive units questing for stability and prosperity to disintegrating entities whose dreams have long since lost their luster.</p><p>Spanning six decades the novel conveys the drama resilience and humor of working-class life during a little-known era in American history.</p>