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Nov 4, 2024 @ 6:30 pm - 7:30 pm

DB Outreach: Adult Four Seasons Book Club – Virtual

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Four Seasons Book Club for Adults

DB’s Outreach team invites you to join the quarterly virtual book club for all adults! Join us for one, two or as many of the book discussions we offer each year – the books that capture your interest! 

This fall’s featured book is The Indigo Girl by Natasha Boyd.

Join us this Fall – Monday, November 4 at 8:30pm ET/ 7:30pm CT / 6:30pm MT / 5:30pm PT

If you are interested in joining us, please email us at [email protected] and we will answer any questions and/or add you to the participant list for this book.

The Zoom information for the book discussion will be sent approximately one week prior to our meeting. 

There will be an opportunity for you to share your favorite passages or moments from the book with the group (consider marking them in your book or writing it down along with the page number).

Interesting interview with the author (Spoiler Alert: read AFTER you have read the book): https://deborahkalbbooks.blogspot.com/2018/04/q-with-natasha-boyd.html  

About the Author:

Natasha Boyd (writing romance as Tasha Boyd) is a USA Today bestselling and award-winning author of both historical fiction and contemporary romance. Her historical fiction novel THE INDIGO GIRL was long-listed for the Southern Book Prize and was a Southern Independent Booksellers’ Association OKRA PICK. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and lives with her husband, two sons and the cast of characters in her head.

Book overview:

An incredible story of dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice.

The year is 1739. Eliza Lucas is sixteen years old when her father leaves her in charge of their family’s three plantations in rural South Carolina and then proceeds to bleed the estates dry in pursuit of his military ambitions. Tensions with the British, and with the Spanish in Florida, just a short way down the coast, are rising, and slaves are starting to become restless. Her mother wants nothing more than for their South Carolina endeavor to fail so they can go back to England. Soon her family is in danger of losing everything.

Upon hearing how much the French pay for indigo dye, Eliza believes it’s the key to their salvation. But everyone tells her it’s impossible, and no one will share the secret to making it. Thwarted at nearly every turn, even by her own family, Eliza finds that her only allies are an aging horticulturalist, an older and married gentleman lawyer, and a slave with whom she strikes a dangerous deal: teach her the intricate thousand-year-old secret process of making indigo dye and in return — against the laws of the day — she will teach the slaves to read.

So begins an incredible story of love, dangerous and hidden friendships, ambition, betrayal, and sacrifice.

Based on historical documents, including Eliza’s letters, this is a historical fiction account of how a teenage girl produced indigo dye, which became one of the largest exports out of South Carolina, an export that laid the foundation for the incredible wealth of several Southern families who still live on today. Although largely overlooked by historians, the accomplishments of Eliza Lucas influenced the course of US history. When she passed away in 1793, President George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral.

This book is set between 1739 and 1744, with romance, intrigue, forbidden friendships, and political and financial threats weaving together to form the story of a remarkable young woman whose actions were before their time: the story of the indigo girl.

Genres Historical Fiction | Fiction Historical | Audiobook | Romance | Adult | Southern Book Club | Adult Fiction | American History 

343 pages, Hardcover

First published October 3, 2017

GoodReads Rated 4.21 – 44,543 ratings | 4,675 reviews

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