5/21/2023 0 Comments The book woman's daughter![]() The historical aspects of The Book Woman’s Daughter were interesting and I liked the main characters. (Junia used to be a pack mule for Honey’s mother, who was also a packhorse librarian.) She encounters several adventures during her route and becomes friends with a fire lookout, a frontier nurse and a coal miner. She gets a job as a packhorse librarian and sets off delivering her books on her mule, Junia. (Cussy is a “blue” woman because of a genetic disorder and her husband, Jackson, is white.) Honey has to adjust to life on her own and keep one step ahead of the sheriff and social worker who plan to send her to a children’s work prison for five years. ![]() Honey Lovett is 16 years old when her parents are sent to jail for violating the miscegenation laws of the state. The book is set in the 1950’s in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky. ![]() ![]() It is the sequel to The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, but would be perfectly fine to read on its own without reading the first novel. We have a new service at the Watseka Public Library – HOOPLA! (Come and see us to find out more!) I tried Hoopla out this week myself, and really enjoyed The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson. ![]()
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