Due to me writing down the pub date wrong, I missed posting my review of Kim Michele Richardson's The Book Woman's Daughter on time. However, here it is, and I highly encourage you to read this book, as well as its predecessor The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek.
The first book left off in 1936, but its sequel picks up in 1953. Honey Lovett is the daughter of the blue-skinned Pack Horse Librarian from Troublesome Creek. But when Honey's parents are imprisoned for breaking Kentucky's miscegenation laws, Honey finds herself back in Troublesome Creek, picking up her mother's old library route. Can Honey avoid being hauled off to a reform school for children or will working this job prove that she deserves her emancipation?
Reading this book made me so grateful that I live in a time when it's easy to get information from point A to point B. I can't imagine having to wait days or weeks to receive a message simply because I live in a house off the beaten path with no access to a telephone. But while I'm glad to live in a modern age, so many of the book's 1950s topics are still issues happening in 2022: racism, sexism, men making laws about what women can do. Honey points out that it's legal for her, as a 16-year-old, to get married in Kentucky and start having babies and living an adult life, but it's not okay for her to live an adult life if she's living it on her own.
This was a great continuation of the story that shows you what's happened to some familiar characters in the years since the first book and introduces you to some new favorite characters!
The Book Woman's Daughter is published by Sourcebooks and is on bookstore shelves now. I received a free e-ARC in exchange for this review.
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