The Miners' Lament
A Story of Latina Activists in the Empire Zinc Mine Strike
by Judy Dodge Cummings
Flux
Jolly Fish Press
Historical Fiction | Middle Grade | Multicultural Interest
Pub Date 01 Sep 2021
I am reviewing a copy of The Miners Lament through Flux/Jolly Fish Press and Netgalley:
This book takes the readers back to 1951 where the workers at the Empire Zinc Mine in Alba, New Mexico, have been striking for months. Ana Maria Garcia’s father is with them, he tells her that they may need to sell her vihuela to pay rent. But her vihuela was a gift from her recently deceased mother, and her dream is to be a corridista, a singer of Mexican ballads.
Ana Maria is soon drawn to the picket line she is inspired to write a corrido about her mother and the other women of the mining community. An upcoming talent show may be Ana Maria’s chance to earn money for rent and save her vihuela if she can give voice to the song of her heart.
If you are looking for a book that deals with the life of the Miners on the Mexican American side of town in Alba, New Mexica in the early 1950’s and before I highly recommend The Miners Lament!
Five out of five stars!
Happy Reading!
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