The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

 

Amazon writes, "The hardscrabble folks of Troublesome Creek have to scrap for everything—everything except books, that is. Thanks to 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's also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue unlike most anyone else. Not everyone is keen on Cussy's family or the Library Project, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble. If Cussy wants to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she's going to have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachias and suspicion as deep as the holler.". It's an historical drama that brings in the true existence of the "blue people" and the book women of the rural areas during the works programs. Everything was going great and interesting until the very end - I think the ending ruined it for me. All in all, I say: READ IT if you like history.