Reading with Friends - The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
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Join Friends for our September Reading with Friends event to discuss The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek must scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.
Cussy’s not only a book woman, however, she is also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she is going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachians and suspicion as deep as the holler.
Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek offers a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman’s belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home.
Join Friends for our September Reading with Friends event to discuss The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.
The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek must scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to President Theodore Roosevelt’s Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, Troublesome’s got its very own traveling librarian, Cussy Mary Carter.
Cussy’s not only a book woman, however, she is also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she is going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachians and suspicion as deep as the holler.
Inspired by the true blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service of the 1930s, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek offers a story of raw courage, fierce strength, and one woman’s belief that books can carry us anywhere—even back home.
