![]() ![]() Cussy Mary, sometimes known as Bluet, lives with her coal-miner and labor-organizing father, and feels her work as a librarian honors her long-dead mother, who loved books. ![]() In 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project, delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains. As a Book Woman, Cussy Mary is highly regarded, but as a Blue, she is feared and reviled, and experiences racism, discrimination and violence. Cussy Mary is also a "Blue" - the last of a line of blue-skinned people, whose skin appears the unusual shade due to a rare genetic disorder. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. Cussy Mary is a "Book Woman" - one of the Packhorse Librarians who delivered books to remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression, from 1935 to 1943, as part of President Franklin D. The story is a fictionalized account of real subjects in the history of eastern Kentucky. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson. 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek ![]()
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