Browseabout Book Club

The Browseabout Book Club selection for March is The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead.

Cora is a young 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 strange yet familiar iterations of her own world at each stop. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the terrors of the antebellum era, he weaves in the saga of our nation, from the brutal abduction of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day.

Purchase books at Browseabout for 10% off the price - please let the staff member know you are buying it for the book club. Hot beverages from Browseabout's cafe are half price during the meeting.

Meetings take place on the third Sunday of the month, September through May, beginning at 3:30 PM. No registration is required. Come for one discussion, or come for them all!

Event date: 
Sunday, March 18, 2018 - 3:30pm to 5:00pm
Event address: 
133 Rehoboth Ave.
Rehoboth Beach, DE 19971