Pa knows that Blues can be hung for less than a white man's death in self defense, and that two dead Fraziers - a large area clan - are too much to get away with. One night Vester tries sneak up on her cabin, and Pa is forced to kill him. A new patron on her route, Jackson Lovett, piques her romantic and intellectual interest, but she also soon realizes that a relative of Charlie's, an evangelical preacher named Vester Frazier, is stalking her as she traverses her remote trails, and means her harm.
Cussy Mary is relieved to be free of the burden of wedlock to this distasteful man, returns home to her "holler", and rededicates herself to her work. He rapes and severely beats Cussy Mary on the night of their hasty and secretive wedding, but then collapses and dies of an apparent heart attack. But when Elijah offers land as a dowry, the much-older Charlie Frazier agrees to the union. To Cussy Mary's relief, none of her potential suitors are willing to marry a Blue. While the people of the small nearby town that headquarters the library treat her badly as a Blue, at least some of her patrons love and respect her. But Cussy Mary loves her independence, her calling, and the joy she helps bring people with books, and would not be able to continue as a married woman. Her "Pa", Elijah, slowly dying from lung disease from working in the mines, is determined to marry his daughter off, at any cost, in order to ensure her future security. The Carters are the last of the Blue People of Kentucky, considered to be "colored" by the segregationist white community. Cussy Mary, sometimes known as Bluet, lives with her coal-miner and labor-organizing father, and feels her work as a librarian honors her long-dead mother, who loved books. In 1936 eastern Kentucky, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter works for the New Deal–funded Pack Horse Library Project, delivering reading material to the remote hill people of the Appalachian Mountains. As a Book Woman, Cussy Mary is highly regarded, but as a Blue, she is feared and reviled, and experiences racism, discrimination and violence. Cussy Mary is also a "Blue" - the last of a line of blue-skinned people, whose skin appears the unusual shade due to a rare genetic disorder. Roosevelt's Works Progress Administration (WPA) program. Cussy Mary is a "Book Woman" - one of the Packhorse Librarians who delivered books to remote areas of the Appalachian Mountains during the Great Depression, from 1935 to 1943, as part of President Franklin D. The story is a fictionalized account of real subjects in the history of eastern Kentucky. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek is a 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson. 2019 novel by Kim Michele Richardson The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
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