Summary of the book "Gilded Mountains" by Manning K.: At the beginning of the twentieth century, the French-Canadian Pelletier family moved to Colorado after his father got a job at a marble quarry. Pelletier Sr., outraged by the sweatshop system adopted at the quarry, tries to unite the workers into a union, but faces fierce resistance from the company's owners. His daughter, seventeen-year-old Sylvie Pelletier, an intelligent, daring and determined girl who collaborated with a local newspaper and wrote articles about unbearable working conditions in a quarry, sincerely wants to follow the ideals of the family, but almost against her will falls in love with the heir to the marble empire and finds herself in the circle of the powerful, torn between her lover and relatives, barely able to ends meet. Sylvie believes that justice is on her side and is ready to fight for it to the end, but does she have the strength and perseverance? Read more…