[NEohioPAL] Virtual History Book Club: The Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian

[Margaret Reardon]

*Virtual History Book Club: The Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian*
*Wednesday August 31 at 7 pm*
*Via Zoom*

*The author will be joining us!*

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About this event

'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. When tainted objects are
discovered buried in Mary's garden, when a boy she has treated with herbs
and simples dies, and when their servant girl runs screaming in fright from
her home, Mary must fight to not only escape her marriage, but also the
gallows. A twisting, tightly plotted novel of historical suspense from one
of our greatest storytellers, Hour of the Witch is a timely and terrifying
story of socially sanctioned brutality and the original American witch
hunt"


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