Oh my goodness, what a great book. This was the first book that I have read by Jojo and it will not be the last. I loved reading about five strong women who live in rural Kentucky in the late 1930s who are trying to keep up a mobile library in a small town but run into trouble along the way. Alice, an English woman, moves to America after falling in love with a man who owns and runs a mining company, she is soon to realize that after she moves to America with her new husband, she is fairly unhappy so she joins the local library to keep her busy. The library has started a program where the women would run books to people who live in the mountains to help educate them.

We have to remember that this is Kentucky in the 1930s and of course some people in the small town, including Alice's husbands father, had a huge issue with women running books all around the mountains to 'uncivilized people' and tries to do everything they can to stop these women from running a mobile library. I really did enjoy this novel, the bond that these women build is beautiful. They support and love each other through hard times and their determination to keep the library going to educate people that are living in the mountains, who can't even read at all, was amazing. The power of education is so REAL and POWERFUL.

I rated this book a 4 and not a 5 because the beginning was kind of slow for me and I kept waiting for it to get exciting - about 70 pages in and I was hooked. Other than that, I loved this book and the ending was absolutely perfect <3