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Kentucky, 1936-Chapter 6

· The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Richardson, Kim Michele. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek. Sourcebooks Landmark, 2019. Hardcover.

· In “Kentucky, 1936,” a librarian and her mule spot a body swaying back and forth on a branch in front of them with a rope around its neck.

· A baby lies crying in the dirt below.

· A sock falls off the body’s foot and reveals blue flesh.

· The librarian stares and seems to compare the color of her blue face and hand to that of the corpse.

· She considers how she and the corpse are bound together in the “hard, everlasting Kentucky land so many tried so hard to escape” (2).

· In Chapter 1, it is January 1.

· Pa, Elijah Carter, gets out a courting candle and lights it on the porch of his one-room log house.

· He hopes to get his daughter Cussy...

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