Duong’s Reviews > The Giver of Stars > Status Update

margery got thrown into jail by the police chief and van cleeve for murdering a local drunk. great plot lines, really shows the despair and desparation. bennett tipped them off of a surprise witness.

definitely if I saw read. Apparently, the flood that happened is not because of rain, it is a slurry dam from Van Cleve's mine. You can really feel the anger and frustration and emotions of all the characters involved. This is a great read.

van cleeve shot margery's dog, this made the book a 5-star for me. lots of intersectionality with race, gender, poverty, the patriarchy. fred and alice have dinner together. now they're also in a flood(?)

giver of stars is the poetry book fred gave alice. alice and her hub are still not boning, her father in law beat her up for not quitting the library and is demanding the whole town not use the service anymore. alice is living with margery while fred falls in love with her.

there's the main character, margery, a disabled girl, and a black librarian. theres a big demand, and they all love their jobs. main character has a husband where hes like impotent or something. shows really nicely the double standard of society when it comes to fertility while really showing the ferocity of the main character. depending on plot, 3-4 stars

Alice is a British girl who moved to Kentucky to get married to her husband. She signs up to do a moving library where she deliver books to people in rural areas. Not all of the girls in the town like her because their friend used to be her husband's sweetheart. men in town are not comfortable letting women ride around on horses and deliver books and having autonomy.