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In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky...
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In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of family, discovery, and witchcraft.
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, a handful of generational trauma to work through in therapy, and an esoteric dissertation proposal. But she has one extraordinary secret: Jamie is also a powerful witch. Though Jamie is busy researching a three-hundred-year-old anonymous (possibly magical) book and keeping afloat in the gauntlet of academia, she tries to make time to see her mother Serena, who has closed herself off completely after the death of her beloved wife (Jamie's other mother) Mae. Now, Jamie has been hoping to bring the grieving Serena back to life again by teaching her mother how to also use magic. But she doesn't know the true story of what happened to her mom ten years ago--and casting spells together leads to another terrible loss. It's up to Jamie now to uncover the secrets behind that mysterious 18th century novel. She needs it, both to finish her dissertation as well as to use its hidden message from the past to smooth the magical chaos Serena has wrought in the present....before their future can get any worse.Author: Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher: Tor Books
Published: 08/11/2026
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.70w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781250867339
About the Author
Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster. 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, 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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