This collection is full of women you might be tempted to overlook, but you'd be missing out if you did. It's not until after you spend the time to get to know them that you soon realize their power and the indelible impressions they leave on the world, and on us as listeners.
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Cussy Mary Carter is a book woman, a traveling librarian for the Kentucky Pack Horse Library Project, but to bring the joy of books to the hill folks, she'll have to confront prejudice as old as the Appalachians and suspicion as deep as the holler. You see, Cussy is also the last of her kind, her skin a shade of blue, and a Blue is often blamed for any whiff of trouble.
The convenience store where Keiko Furukara has worked for 18 years is her home and her happy place. She's very good at her job and feels very satisfied with it, if only the rest of the world would quit telling her she's supposed to want a different life. In her mid-30s, Keiko's being pressured to 'get serious,' get a bigger job, get married, etc., so she hatches a plan to just get the world off her back for a minute. It's a short, funny, delightfully subversive story that provides a sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine.
Lu, Chip, Bianca, and Flic are all hitting 50, the supposed ''age of invisibility,'' but they'd rather grow old disgracefully than live as if their lives are already over. This drama puts you in the car with the feisty foursome as they journey across Australia and across the years to their hometown and a school reunion. Laughing, sometimes crying, ruthlessly honest and often downright filthy, they share secrets while the desert roads turn treacherous.