The Giver of Stars: Reese's Book Club by Moyes, Jojo - 2023

US: Penguin Publishing Group, 2023. Paperback. Good. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | A REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK "A great narrative about personal strength and really captures how books br ing communities together." --Reese Witherspoon From the author of the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, a breathtaking sto ry of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mou ntains of Kentucky and beyond in Depression-era America Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve, hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equall y claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law . So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as part of E leanor Roosevelt's new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. The leader, and soon Alice's greatest ally, is Margery, a smart-talking, se lf-sufficient woman who's never asked a man's permission for anything. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packh orse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them-and to the men they love-becomes an unforgettable dram a of loyalty, justice, humanity, and passion. These heroic women refuse to be cowed by men or by convention. 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 h ad any, arming them with facts that will change their lives. Based on a true story rooted in America's past, The Giver of Stars is unparalleled in its scope and epic in its storytelling. Funny, heartbreaking, enthralling, it is destined to become a modern.