Download or read book Call Home the Heart written by Fielding Burke and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novel of a pregnant girl from the North Carolina mountains, Ishma Waycaster, who left home to work in a mill town and found drabness and tragedy. In the mill town she becomes involved in union activity and a strike (modeled after the Gastonia Strike of 1929). Burke provides a remarkably honest portrayal of the conflicts between Ishma's sexual and emotional needs and her intellectual and political loyalties, and of the racial issues raised by the strike.