Literary Book Club- The Hounding

Name: Literary Book Club- The Hounding
Start: 2025-10-12T17:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-10-12T18:00:00-05:00
Location: 38500 Tanger Dr, Ste 207, North Branch, MN, United States, Minnesota 55056

Schedule

Sun Oct 12 2025 at 05:00 pm to 06:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

38500 Tanger Dr, Ste 207, North Branch, MN, United States, Minnesota 55056 | North Branch, MN

Join us each month for thought-provoking reads that spark meaningful conversation. Together we’ll explore acclaimed novels, timeless classics, and powerful contemporary works that invite deeper reflection and connection.
Purchase your book from us and receive 10% off the listed price! You are still also invited to attend if you have read the book elsewhere, and out of town guests can attend virtually.
This month we are reading The Hounding by Xenobe Purvis:
Even before the rumors about the Mansfield girls begin, Little Nettlebed is a village steeped in the uncanny, from strange creatures that wash up on the riverbank to portentous ravens gathering on the roofs of people about to die. But when the villagers start to hear barking, and one claims to see the Mansfield sisters transform before his very eyes, the allegations spark fascination and fear like nothing has before.
The truth is that though the inhabitants of Little Nettlebed have never much liked the Mansfield girls—a little odd, think some; a little high on themselves, perhaps—they’ve always had plenty to say about them. As the rotating perspectives of five villagers quickly make clear, now is no exception. Even if local belief in witchcraft is waning, an aversion to difference is as widespread as ever, and these conflicting narratives all point to the same ultimate conclusion: Something isn’t right in Little Nettlebed, and the sisters will be the ones to pay for it.
A richly atmospheric parable of the pleasures and perils of female defiance, The Hounding considers whether in any age it might be safer to be a dog than an unusual young girl.