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SUMMARY:CORE Bookworms Book Club-Seniors 55 
DESCRIPTION:Join us for Book Club at Main Library (downtown)!  Our selected 
 title for this month is Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the 
 Appalachian Mountains by Cassie Chambers. Please contact Andy Farley with 
 any questions at 910-798-6347.\n\nAfter rising from poverty to earn two Ivy 
 League degrees\, an Appalachian lawyer pays tribute to the strong "hill 
 women" who raised and inspired her\, and whose values have the potential to 
 rejuvenate a struggling region.\n\n"Destined to be compared to Hillbilly 
 Elegy and Educated." (BookPage starred review)\n\n"Poverty is enmeshed with 
 pride in these stories of survival." (Associated Press)\n\nNestled in the 
 Appalachian mountains\, Owsley County is one of the poorest counties in 
 both Kentucky and the country. Buildings are crumbling and fields sit 
 vacant\, as tobacco farming and coal mining decline. But strong women are 
 finding creative ways to subsist in their hollers in the hills.\n\nCassie 
 Chambers grew up in these hollers\, and through the women who raised her\, 
 she traces her own path out of and back into the Kentucky mountains. 
 Chambers' granny was a child bride who rose before dawn every morning to 
 raise seven children. Despite her poverty\, she wouldn’t hesitate to give 
 the last bite of pie or vegetables from her garden to a struggling 
 neighbor. Her two daughters took very different paths: strong-willed Ruth - 
 the hardest-working tobacco farmer in the county - stayed on the family 
 farm\, while spirited Wilma - the sixth child - became the first in the 
 family to graduate from high school\, then moved an hour away for college. 
 Married at 19 and pregnant with Cassie a few months later\, Wilma beat the 
 odds to finish school. She raised her daughter to think she could move 
 mountains\, like the ones that kept her safe but also isolated her from the 
 larger world.\n\nCassie would spend much of her childhood with Granny and 
 Ruth in the hills of Owsley County\, both while Wilma was in college and 
 after. With her "hill women" values guiding her\, Cassie went on to 
 graduate from Harvard Law. But while the Ivy League gave her knowledge and 
 opportunities\, its privileged world felt far from her reality\, and she 
 moved back home to help her fellow rural Kentucky women by providing free 
 legal services.\n\nAppalachian women face issues that are all too common: 
 domestic violence\, the opioid crisis\, a world that seems more divided by 
 the day. But they are also community leaders\, keeping their towns together 
 in the face of a system that continually fails them. With nuance and 
 heart\, Chambers uses these women’s stories paired with her own journey 
 to break down the myth of the hillbilly and illuminate a region whose poor 
 communities\, especially women\, can lead it into the future.\n\n**The book 
 is available for checkout at Main Library (downtown)\, but can be sent to 
 other branches for holds.**\n \n\n
LOCATION:Main Library 230 Grace Street\, Suite A   Wilmington\, North Carolina 28401
ORGANIZER;CN="Andy Farley":MAILTO:afarley@nhcgov.com
CATEGORIES:Adult Literacy Programs, Adult Program, Book Clubs
CONTACT;CN="Andy Farley":MAILTO:afarley@nhcgov.com
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