Sips n' Stories Book Club (The Underground Railroad)

Join us on Zoom for a drink and book discussion. We'll make a Bizzy Izzy Highball and then discuss The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (or bring a drink of your choice).

The e-book and audiobook are available on Libby. The book is available at the library.

Summary: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this #1 New York Times bestseller chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. The basis for the acclaimed original Amazon Prime Video series directed by Barry Jenkins. Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. An outcast even among her fellow Africans, she is on the cusp of womanhood—where greater pain awaits. And so when Caesar, a slave who has recently arrived from Virginia, urges her to join him on the Underground Railroad, she seizes the opportunity and escapes with him. In Colson Whitehead's ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor: engineers and conductors operate a secret network of actual tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. Cora embarks on a harrowing flight from one state to the next, encountering, like Gulliver, strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop.

Zoom meeting details will be emailed to you when you register. Must be 21 or older.

Upcoming Meeting: The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid - Thursday, April 6 at 6 pm.