The two make friends, along with the other librarians, giving Alice the sense of belonging to a community that she’s always wanted.
She’s everything that Alice wants to be, self-sufficient, smart, and most importantly, happy. These packhorse librarians not only provide books, but for some, they are the only connection for these families to the rest of the world.Īlice works closely with Margery, a woman whose family has a muddy past in the community. Eleanor Roosevelt’s traveling library initiative has created a need for able young women to take books to the people living too far to come to a local library. When Alice sees an opportunity that will get her out of the house and allow her to be useful in the community, she grabs it and doesn’t look back.
Her hubby’s not much better, seeing as his first reaction in any situation is to see which way his daddy leans, then agreeing. Her new home is inhospitable to say the least, mostly due to the ever disapproving presence of her new father-in-law who has plenty of opinions on what’s proper for a woman. Alice Wright is a proper British girl who doesn’t quite fit in at home and ends up marrying an exotic American man and moving west to definitely not fit in there as well.
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