The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek

After her other drop-offs, Cussy Mary goes to see Jackson Lovett, who is working in his garden. She gives him Brave New World, a banned book, but one that Pa got for Mama years ago. Cussy Mary loves the world inside the book. She worries that he’ll tell the Center, as she could lose her job for giving him a banned book, but he tells her that she has good taste and he’s glad to read it, as he’s been wanting to. He returns Sons by Pearl S. Buck, asking Cussy Mary if she’s read it. She hasn’t but has read The Good Earth by the same author. They discuss The Good Earth. They both like the same character, O-Lan. They discuss the importance of the earth and how the Company is careless with the earth around them. Lovett tells Cussy Mary that he has the other book in the set and she could read both. She is excited because she didn’t get to read it, as her supervisors at the library didn’t approve. They discuss the land and his plans for it. Cussy Mary knows she should leave, but she wants to stay. Lovett checks in with