He finally gets a taker, an old man named Charlie Frazier. The only reason Cussy has any suitors at all is because Pa has offered 10 acres of land for her dowry. She’s also afraid of the kind of man who would want to marry one of the “Kentucky Blue People.” Cussy and several generations of her ancestors have a rare genetic condition that turns their skin blue, and although they are otherwise healthy and normal, they are treated with fear and bigotry.
Cussy doesn’t want to get married she has a job with the WPA’s Pack Horse Library project, delivering books to people in remote communities and homesteads in the hinterlands around Troublesome Creek. Cussy’s mother died of influenza and Pa-a Kentucky coal miner-is sick himself with black lung. In January of 1936, 19-year-old Cussy Mary Carter’s father is trying very hard to find a suitable husband for his daughter.
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