Last Monday Book Club: “Hour of the Witch” by Chris Bohjalian

Boston, 1662. Mary Deerfield is twenty-four-years-old. Her skin is porcelain, her eyes delft blue, and in England she might have had many suitors. But here in the New World, amid this community of saints, Mary is the second wife of Thomas Deerfield, a man as cruel as he is powerful. When Thomas, prone to drunken rage, drives a three-tined fork into the back of Mary's hand, she resolves that she must divorce him to save her life. But in a world where every neighbor is watching for signs of the devil, a woman like Mary—a woman who harbors secret desires and finds it difficult to tolerate the brazen hypocrisy of so many men in the colony—soon becomes herself the object of suspicion and rumor. Mary must fight to not only escape her marriage, but also the gallows.


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You may also like the following events from Silvis Public Library:

• This Thursday, 8th May, 06:00 pm, Family Storytime: Stars, Planets, and Cosmic Tales in Silvis
• This Saturday, 10th May, 10:00 am, Book Buddies: Composting in Silvis
• This Saturday, 10th May, 02:00 pm, Krafty Kids: Insects in Silvis