Yeats Is Dead! by Joseph O'Connor6/27/2023 ![]() Kim Michele Richardson: Harriet’s love of books softened her bitter heart and helped humanize her. It changed her into something different, better, and for a minute I forgot who she was - who I wasn’t.” Can you talk about the way books can remove us, however briefly, from our prejudices? Cussy reflects: “I loved the way Harriett loved her books. Yet when she gives Harriett a book that will please her, the torments are momentarily forgotten. ![]() Reading Group Choices: The local Pack Horse supervisors, Harriett and Eula, ceaselessly taunt and belittle Cussy Mary. Author Kim Michele Richardson talks about her novel The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, inspired by the true story of the Pack Horse Librarians in Kentucky.įor her interview with Reading Group Choices, Kim Michele Richardson talks about the power of literacy and librarians, surviving prejudices and abuse, and how history and her homeland inspired her latest novel… ![]()
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