May Selection

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

Harvard graduate student Connie Goodwin needs to spend her summer doing research for her doctoral dissertation. But when her mother asks her to handle the sale of Connie’s grandmother’s abandoned home near Salem, she can’t refuse. As she is drawn deeper into the mysteries of the family house, Connie discovers an ancient key within a seventeenth-century Bible. The key contains a yellowing fragment of parchment with a name written upon it: Deliverance Dane.

This discovery launches Connie on a quest—to find out who this woman was and to unearth a rare artifact of singular power: a physic book, its pages a secret repository for lost knowledge.

Please join the Book Club for a discussion of this book and others at our monthly meeting on Wednesday, May 26 at noon in the Butler Public Library Community room. Bring a sack lunch and enjoy your afternoon with us.