Revolution Songs
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9781774391242 | October 2025 | 376 Pages
ABOUT THIS BOOK
Award-winning nonfiction writer Carissa Halton breaks the mould with this stunning debut novel.
Annie Jalmer stands uneasily between opposing allegiances in her 1930s Rocky Mountain town. As the radical politics of her family inflame tensions , Annie becomes an unwilling double agent until a violent strike forces her to take a stand.
Revolution Songs is the electrifying debut novel by award-winning writer Carissa Halton, inspired by the little-known story of a Communist union, the rise of the Canadian Ku Klux Klan, and the women who fought on both sides. Set against the charged backdrop of Depression-era politics, Halton weaves a thrilling and timely story that echoes the rising polarization of our own era.
“Carissa Halton’s poignant Revolution Songs brings alive the tensions and resolve in an exploited mining community grappling with Depression poverty." —Alvin Finkel, President, Alberta Labour History Institute and author, Humans: The 300,000 Year Struggle for Equality
"Carissa Halton examines the problem of responsibility—to ourselves, our families, society—through rock-solid research and deft, enjoyable prose.” Marina Endicott, award-winning author of The Observer and The Little Shadows
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