The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
Categories: Literature & Fiction
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson, set in the hills of eastern Kentucky in 1936 during the Great Depression. Cussy Mary Carter, one of the last of the rare blue-skinned people of Kentucky, rides a mule through the mountains as a Pack Horse Librarian for the WPA, bringing books to isolated families while facing prejudice, suspicion and danger, and finding that the written word can change lives in the hollows.
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- Dolly Parton: “The book that... currently sits on my nightstand: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson.”