![]() It ain’t respectable for a female to be riding these rough hills, behaving like a man,” he said, a harshness rumbling his voice. ![]() Pamphlets with tips on fixing things busted. “ Robinson Crusoe, and Dickens, and the likes, and lots of Popular Mechanics and Women’s Home Companion even. It’s called literature and it’s proper enough.” I tried to explain like so many times before. “Where’s your decency? Some of the womenfolk are complaining you’re carrying dirty books up them rocks.” “Pa, I have me a good job making us twenty-eight dollars a month delivering books to folks who’s needing the book learning in these hills. ![]() Book Woman delivering to Appalachian children, courtesy Kentucky Department of LibrariesĬussy Mary Carter is “the” book woman of the title in native Kentuckian Kim Michele Richardson’s novel, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. The year is 1936, and Cussy Mary’s widowed father hopes it’s “the year his only daughter, nineteen-year-old Cussy Mary Carter, would get herself hitched and quit her job with the Pack Horse Library Project.” Cussy has other ideas. ![]()
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