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title: "The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston (Story River Books) Paperback – August 24, 2016"
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# The Cigar Factory: A Novel of Charleston (Story River Books) Paperback – August 24, 2016

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## Customer Reviews

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    Fascinating Historical Novel
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2017*

This is a historical fiction. Michele Moore has done a brilliant job putting together a story of life working in the Cigar Factory in Charleston, now converted to condos and home of Garden & Gun Magazine. The vivid description of smells and reactions waft from the pages. The knowledge offered on how cigars were made from which strain of tobacco leaf to use and in what order to place the leaf was fascinating.  I attended a lecture where Michele showed photographs of the factory depicting women packed elbow to elbow on one floor and black women in the basement sitting on baskets while the white man watched over. She shared her research from published writings to interviews with her aunt and father who worked in the Cigar Factory. Michele captured the dialect of Gullah and GeeChee beautifully. So few authors are allowed to do this. I appreciated the Glossary at the beginning as it helped to refer back while reading dialog. The story is carried over many years from 1917 to 1940s when Charleston began building the many bridges you see today...the strike that helped change for the better for cigar factory workers. Michele made certain to weave individual stories following the characters through to the end. Well done.

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    Day-clean tuh sun-lean, he’lenga an’ sun-lean-fuh-down . . .
  

*by P***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 16, 2017*

. . . onah tek dis book an’ put puntop yuh to-read list, shooo!1893 – 1946, Charleston, South Carolina.  Cassie, Brigid, Meliah Amy, and Binah all work at the cigar factory on East Bay Street, but they don’t all work on the same floor.  Negroes, the basement.  Whites, the fourth floor.  Only the tobacco and the cigars in process move between floors.  Moore wraps her characters in history, in rich sensual imagery, and the bright warmth of the Gullah-Geechee languages spoken by all, buckruh, high buckruh, ma’magole, whatevah yuh be.  Dis de mores bes’ book ebuh. Fuh true.  When oonah finish, yuh no hol’ um cheap, no suh.  T’engk yuh, Miz. Moore, True-mouth!  Much wuk.  Much trute!

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    A glimpse into real Charleston
  

*by S***T on Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2019*

This is an entertaining and educational look into Charleston during a period that most of us know little about. I appreciated the two distinct voices of the time living in the same space but with quite different experiences. It takes a couple chapters to get the rhythm of Gullah language but once it "clicks" it's an incredibly entertaining aspect of the book I also appreciated that it wasn't a tale of the have vs. have nots - something many Charlestonian writers like to contrast. Rather, this is a comparison of two regular women struggling with class, race, job, and living on the edge at a time when many lived on the edge.

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