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This is a great story which includes historical research on the Pack Horse Library of Kentucky and how that worked during the Great Depression and the history of the blue-skinned people of Kentucky, who suffered from a genetic condition called methemoglobinemia, which caused them to have less-oxygenated blood. The main character, Cussy Mary "Bluet" Carter, is a Pack Horse Librarian and blue-skinned. The difficulties faced by the people of Appalachian Kentucky during the Depression -- the unfair
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