Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Anders, Charlie Jane
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Anders, Charlie Jane

Lessons in Magic and Disaster

In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky...
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Author: Charlie Jane Anders
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Language: English
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Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Anders, Charlie Jane

Lessons in Magic and Disaster

$46.32
Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Anders, Charlie Jane

Lessons in Magic and Disaster

$46.32
Author: Charlie Jane Anders
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic.

A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic--with very unexpected results--in this relatable, resonant novel about family, identity, and the power of love.

Jamie is the average New England academic in-training--she has a strong queer relationship, generational trauma, and an esoteric dissertation proposal. But she has one extraordinary secret: she's also a powerful witch.

Serena, Jamie's mother, has been hiding from the world in an old one-room schoolhouse for several years, grieving the death of her wife and the simultaneous explosion in her professional life. All she has left are memories.

Jamie's busy digging into a three-hundred-year-old magical book, but she still finds time to teach Serena to cast spells and help her come out of her shell. But Jamie doesn't know the whole story of what happened to her mom years ago, and those secrets are leading Serena down a destructive path.

Now it's up to this grad student and literature nerd to understand the secrets behind this mysterious novel from 1749, unearth a long-buried scandal hinted therein, and learn the true nature of magic, before her mother ruins both of their lives.

Author: Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 08/19/2025
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.11lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.49w x 1.09d
ISBN: 9781250867322


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 05/01/2025 pg. 6
Kirkus Reviews 06/01/2025
Publishers Weekly 06/02/2025
Booklist 06/01/2025 pg. 51
Shelf Awareness 08/16/2025
BookPage 08/01/2025

About the Author
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, coming August 2025 from Tor Books. Her other novels include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She's also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes, and Never Say You Can't Survive (August 2021), a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
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