![]() ![]() ![]() Her skin is a vivid shade of blue, which gets so blue that it's almost purple when she blushes. Written by Kim Michele Richardson, this novel is based on these "book women" with a major plot twist: The lead character, Cussy Mary Carter Frazier, is one of the infamous blue people of Kentucky, supposedly the last of her kind. ![]() Women (and a few men) were hired as librarians, and they delivered and retrieved books via horse, mule, and donkey up and down steep trails and through dark forests. Roosevelt's Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, there were books. In the 1930s in the hardscrabble mountains and hollers of eastern Kentucky food was scarce and jobs were backbreaking, but thanks to President Franklin D. ![]()
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