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True Story Book Club: Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America by Amy Butcher

Tuesday, October 4, 2022
11:00 am12:00 pm
Community Room of the Library at 11 AM

Our True Story Book Club meets on the first Tuesday of each month at 11 AM in the Community Room of the Library! We read and discuss many different subjects and issues from lots of countries around the world. It just has to be a true story is all! Hard copies of each title are available for checkout on the Book Club Shelf on the first floor of the library.

This month we are reading: Mothertrucker: Finding Joy on the Loneliest Road in America by Amy Butcher (284 pp)
Amy Butcher was an accomplished college professor, mentor, and writer, but in her own home, she was embarrassed and emotionally burdened by an increasingly abusive relationship. Exhausted and terrified of the ways her partner’s behavior could escalate, Amy reached out to Instagram celebrity Joy “Mothertrucker” Wiebe. Joy was a fifty-year-old wife and mother and the nation’s only female ice road trucker, a woman who maneuvered big rigs through the Alaskan wilderness along the deadliest road in America. Joy was everything Amy wanted to be: independent, fearless, and in charge of her life in a landscape dominated by men. Invited by Joy to ride shotgun, Amy found her escape on a road that was treacherous, beautiful, and exhilarating―an adventurous ride through the Alaskan wilderness that was profoundly life changing.

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