![]() ![]() Shortly after her visit, Preacher Vester Frazier (Charlie’s cousin) assaults Cussy Mary in the woods. She visits her patron, Angeline Moffit, a young woman who is pregnant by her husband, Willie, who has been shot in the foot and is dying. On their wedding night, he beats and rapes her before dying of a heart attack.Ĭussy Marry returns to work after a self-induced abortion. ![]() Eventually, Charlie Frazier does marry Cussy Mary. However, no suitor wants to marry Cussy Mary, despite her generous dowry, because of the color of her skin. She lives alone with her father, who made a promise to her recently deceased mother that he would see her respectably married. Set in a hilly area of rural Kentucky, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek focuses on Cussy Mary Carter, a 19-year-old librarian with a genetic condition that turns her skin blue. ![]()
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