Just like that.” She mulled over it for a moment, then straightened up, and flashed Alice a tight smile. It’s when you realize they can always shut you up with a fist. That it doesn’t matter how smart you are, how much better at arguing, how much better than them period. It’s that in that instant you realize the truth of what it is to be a woman. You know the worst thing about a man hitting you?” Margery said finally. She just wasn’t sure she had yet been to the place she was homesick for. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern classic–a richly rewarding novel of women’s friendship, of true love, and of what happens when we reach beyond our grasp for the great beyond. 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.īased on a true story rooted in America’s past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling.
These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama of loyalty, justice, humanity and passion. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky.
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. 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. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. Audiobook Length: 13 hours and 52 minutesĪlice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England.
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