The Giver of Stars
Readers rate it 4.1 (228 on Hardcover)
399 pages · Released 2019 · Random House Large Print
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The Giver of Stars is an adult literary fiction novel centered on women's agency, friendship, and independence set during the Great Depression. While it celebrates courage and female empowerment, it contains mature themes including marital dysfunction, a love affair, domestic abuse references, and occasional violence that make it more suitable for older teens and adults rather than younger readers. The book rewards kindness, loyalty, and standing up for what's right, but the complexity and adult relationships require sufficient maturity to process.
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From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky... From the author of Me Before You, set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally 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 Eleanor Roosevelt’s new traveling library, Alice signs on enthusiastically. 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. They will be joined by three other singular women who become known as the Packhorse Librarians of Kentucky. What happens to them–and to the men they love–becomes an unforgettable drama 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 had 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 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.
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- nyt:hardcover-fiction=2019-10-27
- New York Times bestseller
- Kentucky, fiction
- Fiction, romance, historical
- Fiction, family life
- Librarians, fiction
- Fiction, women
- nyt:trade-fiction-paperback=2021-05-23
- Traveling libraries
- Fiction
- Women librarians
- Librarians
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ISBN 9780593152263 · Random House Large Print