The Chelsea Library Book Club meets every Third Tuesday of the month, to discuss the month's book selection over light refreshments and snacks. Copies of each book are available at the Chelsea Public Library in the month leading up to the meeting. 

Meeting February 17th at 6pm
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
In Whitehead’s ingenious conception, the Underground Railroad is no mere metaphor—engineers and conductors operate a secret network of tracks and tunnels beneath the Southern soil. 
Like the protagonist of Gulliver’s Travels, our hero Cora encounters different worlds at each stage of her journey—hers is an odyssey through time as well as space. As Whitehead brilliantly re-creates the unique terrors for Black people in the pre–Civil War era, his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day. The Underground Railroad is at once a kinetic adventure tale of one woman’s ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage and a shattering, powerful meditation on the history we all share.

Listen to Author Colson Whitehead discuss this book in an interview here.  

​This month, our meeting falls on Mardi Gras and co-leader Jennie Martin will be making King Cake for us to enjoy while we discuss the book. 

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By phone: (802) 685 -2188
In person: 296 Vt. Rt. 110 (Chelsea North Common)