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Three women’s stories converge in Labuskes’s (The Last Book of Bonn) historical novel. In 1936, Millie Lang, the editor of WPA’s American Guide Project in Washington, DC, travels to Missoula to discover why the Montana Guide is delayed after the first series of dispatches arrive in disarray. Was it sabotage or ineptitude? In 1924, Alice Monroe, local librarian and daughter of the mayor, finds her passion is getting books to mining town residents to open their worlds and minds and provide a bit of joy in desolate times via a boxcar library. When those in power learn of her plan, she meets resistance as there is danger in providing workers with too much education. In 1914, Colette Durand, the daughter of a Shakespeare-loving miner and union organizer, learns firsthand the lengths to which corporations will go to keep workers in line when her father is brutally murdered.
VERDICT Inspired by the true history of Missoula’s Boxcar Library, Labuskes transports readers to a time and place where powerful corporations seek complete control of the workers and dedicated women are determined to expand the transformative power of words.
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