Wednesday, October 14, 2026 · 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
West Acton Citizens' Library — 21 Windsor Ave., Acton, MA
The West Acton Citizens’ Library Book Discussion Group is held on the second Wednesday of each month from 3:30 to 4:30PM in the West Acton Citizens’ Library programming room. Lead by a librarian, this month's book discussion will feature Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian . 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 finds 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…