The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

In 1936 in the dusty Appalachian hills of Troublesome Creek, nineteen and blue-skinned, Bluet has used up her last chance for “respectability” and a marriage bed.

She joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding up treacherous mountains on a mule to deliver books and other reading material to the poor hill communities of Eastern Kentucky. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek has won numerous accolades and been praised as “hauntingly atmospheric” and “utterly compelling”.