by Jojo Moyes
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Pamela Dorman Books
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Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically.
The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky.
What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives.
The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, self-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky.
What happens to them--and to the men they love--becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. And though they face all kinds of dangers in a landscape that is at times breathtakingly beautiful, at others brutal, they’re committed to their job: bringing books to people who have never had any, arming them with facts that will change their lives.
She just wasn’t sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for.
I fell head over heels in love with each of the women in Giver of the Stars! I went into this one not really expecting to love it, but many of our book groups were reading it, so I took the plug along with them and I AM SO GLAD I DID!
Friendships, troubles, perseverance, and love catapulted this book over the top of mandatory women’s reads of 2019! Alice, while not my favorite character embedded her way into my heart and I still think about her from time to time.
It’s not often that a character stays with me for so long.
Friendships, troubles, perseverance, and love catapulted this book over the top of mandatory women’s reads of 2019! Alice, while not my favorite character embedded her way into my heart and I still think about her from time to time.
It’s not often that a character stays with me for so long.