July Book Club
Thu, Jul 30
|Hopeville Pond State Park Pavilion
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson
Time & Location
Jul 30, 2026, 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Hopeville Pond State Park Pavilion, 929 Hopeville Rd, Griswold, CT
Guests
About the Event
Our next read will be The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson. This historical fiction is the winner of multiple literary awards.
“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 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.
Along her dangerous route, Cussy, known to the mountain folk as Bluet, confronts those suspicious of her damselfly-blue skin and the government'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…