The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes
In Depression-era Kentucky, a group of women on horseback deliver library copies of books and magazines to residents who live far away from town. But powerful men in the area oppose the library, as it employs a black woman, influences women and children’s minds with fiction and encourages previously illiterate families to defend their rights against encroaching mining companies. Based on the true story of the Pack Horse Library Project established by the Works Progress Administration in the 1930s, Moyes’ 2019 novel is a love letter to the power of books and friendship.
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