Descrip­tions

En 1936, au cœur des bois de Troublesome Creek, dans le Kentucky, vit la jeune Mary Cussy Carter, 19 ans. Elle est la dernière femme vivante et la descendante d’une étrange lignée de montagnards à la peau bleue originaires de France.

Cette jeune femme solitaire travaille pour le projet Pack Horse Library. Chaque jour elle parcourt de longues distances sur sa mule pour apporter des livres aux habitants pauvres des montagnes du Kentucky.

Si Cussy cherche plus que tout à offrir une échappatoire à travers la lecture à ceux qui n’ont rien, elle va devoir affronter des préjugés aussi vieux que les Appalaches.

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 fleeting retreat to faraway lands.