{"id":37465,"date":"2020-08-24T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T15:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=37465"},"modified":"2020-08-24T09:23:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-24T14:23:59","slug":"virtual-book-club-the-underground-railroad-on-august-26th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/virtual-book-club-the-underground-railroad-on-august-26th\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Book Club – ‘The Underground Railroad’ on August 26th"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Wednesday, August 26th, at 2pm,\u00a0Virtual Book Club<\/a>\u00a0will be discussing\u00a0The Underground Railroad <\/strong><\/em><\/a>by Colson Whitehead. Join in and talk about a popular book with one of our librarians. We are using GoTo Meeting which will allow patrons to video chat with the librarian about the book! Information about how to join is listed below.<\/p>\n

Curious what\u00a0The Underground Railroad<\/strong><\/em><\/a> is about? Check out the following description provided by the publisher:<\/p>\n

A magnificent tour de force chronicling a young slave’s adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. When Caesar, a recent arrival from Virginia, tells her about the Underground Railroad, they decide to take a terrifying risk and escape. Though they manage to find a station and head north, they are being hunted. Their first stop is South Carolina, in a city that initially seems like a haven. But the city’s placid surface masks an insidious scheme designed for its black denizens. And even worse: Ridgeway, the relentless slave catcher, is close on their heels.<\/em><\/p>\n

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