2014 - Author - Mary Casanova
The gripping story of a Minnesota milling town ripped apart by tension and violence
Riot follows the story of sixth-grader Bryan, whose family life becomes stressed when nonunion labor “rats” are hired at the local paper mill, leaving his father, a union worker, angry and out of a job. Already torn between his parents’ opposing viewpoints on the escalating situation, Bryan’s growing feelings for the daughter of a nonunion worker only complicate matters.