(Apologies if this posts twice - FB is being wonky this afternoon!)
Our selection for October is The First Witch of Boston by Andrea Catalano at the Peninsula Fire Department at 1008 E Leroy Road in Cleveland, 7:00 p.m.
We will have a Halloween theme going for the night, with a few fun treats for everyone. We will also plan to do a potluck, so bring something yummy!
Hope to see you there - and remember to bring your bingo cards!
Here's a brief synopsis of The First Witch of Boston:
A gripping and intimate novel based on the true story of Margaret Jones, the first woman to be found guilty of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1646. Thomas and Margaret Jones arrive from England to build a life in the New World. Though of differing temperaments, cautious Thomas and fiery Margaret, a healer, are bound by a love that has lasted decades. With a child on the way, their new beginning promises only blessings.
But in this austere Puritan community, comely faces hide malicious intent. Wrong moves or words are met with suspicion, and Margaret’s bold and unguarded nature draws scorn. Soon, Margaret is mistrusted as more cunning woman than kind caregiver. And when personal tragedies, religious hysteria, and wariness of the unknown turn most against her, even the devotion Margaret and her husband share is at risk.
Inspired by actual diary entries and court records, The First Witch of Boston is at once the riveting story of a woman unjustly accused and a love story set amid the political and social turmoil of both Old and New England. Harrowing, and with a deep understanding of the human heart, history is brilliantly imagined.
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