A remote mountainous part of Kentucky is suffering more from the Great Depression than wealthier parts of the United States. People survive, but they don't give up. As part of the government's support program, Cussy Mary Carter becomes a librarian of the Mobile Libraries, which bring enlightenment, escape from harsh reality and human contact with reading. A 19-year-old girl has to deal with a whole series of adversities because of a different skin color - she is blue. Her story tells about the indomitability of human will and the age-old human desire to change the surrounding world for the better. Kim Michele Richardson anchors her latest novel in an uncompromisingly portrayed and harsh period of American history before the Second World War, in which backwardness, prejudice and racial intolerance reigned in the Appalachian Mountains.