{"id":48,"date":"2021-03-05T16:23:17","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T16:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/?p=48"},"modified":"2021-03-19T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2021-03-19T13:30:37","slug":"the-book-woman-of-troublesome-creek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/2021\/03\/05\/the-book-woman-of-troublesome-creek\/","title":{"rendered":"The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><em>The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek<\/em><br \/>\nby Kim Michele Richardson<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Book description from Goodreads:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry.<br \/>\nThe lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across slippery creek beds and up treacherous mountains on her faithful mule to deliver books and other reading material to the impoverished hill people of Eastern Kentucky.<br \/>\nAlong her dangerous route, Cussy, known to the mountain folk as Bluet, confronts those suspicious of her damselfly-blue skin and the government&#8217;s new book program. She befriends hardscrabble and complex fellow Kentuckians, and is fiercely determined to bring comfort and joy, instill literacy, and give to those who have nothing, a bookly respite, a fleeting retreat to faraway lands.<br \/>\nInspired by the true and historical blue-skinned people of Kentucky and the brave and dedicated Kentucky Pack Horse library service, <i>The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek<\/i>\u00a0showcases a bold and unique tale of the Packhorse Librarians in literary novels\u2014a story of fierce strength and one woman&#8217;s belief that books can carry us anywhere\u2014even back home.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why does the nominator think this would be a good book for the Campus Read?<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>The book delves into issues of racism, poverty, and the power of books in the hills of Kentucky. There is a hanging, murder, a stubborn mule, and the heroine is a blue person. All of these events and characters allow for layers of critical thinking and ultimately pose a choice between being kind or not being kind to others. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson Book description from Goodreads: In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":32,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[18,28,30],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-norris-matchup-2","tag-norris-round-2","tag-norris-vs-shouldice"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/40\/2021\/03\/BookWoman.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakerblogs.lssu.edu\/campusread2122\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}