LEADER 00000nim a22004335a 4500 003 MWT 005 20201029015557.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 201023s2015 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 BHF000211 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ dra_bhf000211_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT13470125 037 13470125|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Ware, Libby. 245 10 Lum.|nA Novel|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cLibby Ware. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bShe Writes Press,|c2015. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 05 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Janet Metzger. 520 In 1933 in the Shenandoah Valley, there isn't a place for Lum (short for Columbia), a 33-year-old intersex woman. She travels by schedule from one branch of the family to another, assisting with cooking, childcare and housework. Always an outsider, even in her own family, Lum secretly collects postcards of people like the Dog-faced Girl, imagining their stories, and nurtures her lifelong friendship with Smiley, an African-American man who sells furniture, odds-and-ends, and a little moonshine. She makes friends with another outsider, a young Melungeon man from an isolated community high in the mountains, who is fresh out of prison. Scenes from Lum's childhood and young adulthood are interspersed with chapters taking place in 1933 when Lum is 33 years old. But Lum's world changes when a local banker becomes ill and needs care. Sent to assist, she forms an unlikely friendship with the curmudgeonly old man. At the same time, the federal highway administration comes scouting land, wanting to buy the family farm for a new scenic highway. Lum's relatives don't want to sell, and they're not alone. But the Blue Ridge Parkway offers an opportunity for Lum to get a job- something she has longed to do. As tensions over the highway escalate toward violence, and as loyalties are tested, Lum takes a bold step to create an independent life. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 4 Fiction 655 0 Audiobooks 700 1 Metzger, Janet. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 13470125?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ dra_bhf000211_180.jpeg