Join us in discussing this month’s book club pick The Woods All Black by Lee Mandela.
Leslie is on a new nursing assignment in Spar Creek, a town nestled in the Appalachia mountains. After serving in WWII as a nurse and finding his sexuality in Paris, he thinks he can handle a lot. That is until he meets someone like him in Spar Creek. Someone else who feels like a failed woman. The town blames Leslie for bringing evil ways with him. They want him gone. They don’t want his modern medicine. They don’t want to hear about contraception. But something more sinister lurks in the shadows. Something that is beginning to terrorize the town, and Leslie doesn’t want to leave the poor defenseless boy to the superstitions of the townspeople. He keeps delaying leaving until he’s given no choice but to face the truth.
Kait and CJ discuss their love of Appalachian folklore, whether or not this book could be considered horror, and how much they loved its diversity.
For our next book, we’ll be reading My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna Van Veen.
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