![]() Shortly after her visit, Preacher Vester Frazier (Charlie’s cousin) assaults Cussy Mary in the woods. She visits her patron, Angeline Moffit, a young woman who is pregnant by her husband, Willie, who has been shot in the foot and is dying. ![]() On their wedding night, he beats and rapes her before dying of a heart attack.Ĭussy Marry returns to work after a self-induced abortion. Eventually, Charlie Frazier does marry Cussy Mary. ![]() However, no suitor wants to marry Cussy Mary, despite her generous dowry, because of the color of her skin. She lives alone with her father, who made a promise to her recently deceased mother that he would see her respectably married. ![]() Set in a hilly area of rural Kentucky, The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek focuses on Cussy Mary Carter, a 19-year-old librarian with a genetic condition that turns her skin blue. ![]()
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