5/29/2023 0 Comments Review the giver of starsPushed deep into the mountains to avoid prejudice, Cussy uses isolation to learn self-sufficiency. Townsfolk, even Cussy's fellow librarians, see her as the "other" sanctioning a thread of racism that drives the storyline. Nicknamed "Bluet" for her cerulean skin, she is one of the rare "blue people of Kentucky" carrying a genetic trait for methemoglobinemia. Richardson's The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is told first-person through the eyes and voice of nineteen-year-old Cussy Mary Carter. Finally, the literary world seems to be catching up. In 2018, NPR's Morning Edition produced an episode entitled "The Pack Horse Librarians of Eastern Kentucky." And in 2019, two new Kentucky-based novels were published: The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson, released in May and The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes, published in October. In 2017 Smithsonian Magazine highlighted the horse-riding librarians as the Depression Era's first mobile library. Buried in history, relatively little has been written about them. They brought hope, human contact, education, and mental escape. Riding horseback (or mule) these women delivered more than books. The Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration program that paid (mostly) women with no other means of support $28.00 per month to deliver books to remote areas in the Appalachian Mountains between 19. The Giver of Stars New York, N.Y.: Pamela Dorman Books, 2019.
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