![]() The library’s future is threatened, however, when Margery and Alice step too far outside the accepted norms of society, angering the powerful patriarchy of the town. ![]() In return, they find companionship and fulfillment. Together, these women and their horses face hardship and danger to bring books and information to the poverty-stricken backwoods of Kentucky. As a librarian, Alice joins four others: unconventional Margery, who lives by her own rules boisterous Beth, who has eight brothers Izzy, the library organizer’s pampered daughter, who wears a leg brace and has a beautiful voice and Sophia, a black woman who risks backlash to work for the mobile library, in violation of the state’s segregation laws. ![]() When Eleanor Roosevelt creates a mobile library system as part of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration, Alice volunteers to become one of the librarians on horseback to escape her father-in-law’s house. However, soon after arriving in Bennet’s small town in Depression-era Kentucky, Alice realizes that problems in her marriage, a controlling father-in-law and small-town gossip are equally suffocating. ![]() Ill-suited to the stultifying environment and prospects of England, Alice jumps at the chance to escape to America by marrying Bennet, the wealthy, handsome son of a coal-mine owner. ![]()
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