The Outer Edge Book Club will be discussing monthly selections of Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Horror books. The discussion is typically held on the third Thursday of the month, at 6:00PM. Please contact Circulation Assistant Katlynn at kclardy@chathamlib.org for more information.

Know Before You Go:

Digital copies are available through Libby, and limited regular print copies can be picked up at the library's circulation desk.

You are welcome to attend even if you haven't finished the book.

This event is In-Person.

This month's selection is: Hell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph White

Book Description:

Sixteen-year-old trans boy Benji is on the run from the cult that raised him—the fundamentalist sect that unleashed Armageddon and decimated the world’s population. Desperately, he searches for a place where the cult can’t get their hands on him, or more importantly, on the bioweapon they infected him with.

But when cornered by monsters born from the destruction, Benji is rescued by a group of teens from the local Acheson LGBTQ+ Center, affectionately known as the ALC. The ALC’s leader, Nick, is gorgeous, autistic, and a deadly shot, and he knows Benji’s darkest secret: the cult’s bioweapon is mutating him into a monster deadly enough to wipe humanity from the earth once and for all.

Still, Nick offers Benji shelter among his ragtag group of queer teens, as long as Benji can control the monster and use its power to defend the ALC. Eager to belong, Benji accepts Nick’s terms…until he discovers the ALC’s mysterious leader has a hidden agenda, and more than a few secrets of his own.