White Magic by Washuta, Elissa
White Magic by Washuta, Elissa

White Magic

Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award A TIME, NPR, New...
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Author: Elissa Washuta
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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White Magic by Washuta, Elissa

White Magic

$88.99 $46.20
White Magic by Washuta, Elissa

White Magic

$88.99 $46.20
Author: Elissa Washuta
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description
Finalist for the PEN Open Book Award

Longlisted for the PEN/Jean Stein Award

A TIME, NPR, New York Public Library, LitHub, BookRiot, and Entropy Best Book of the Year

"Beguiling and haunting. . . . Washuta's voice sears itself onto the skin." ―The New York Times Book Review

Bracingly honest and powerfully affecting, White Magic establishes Elissa Washuta as one of our best living essayists.

Throughout her life, Elissa Washuta has been surrounded by cheap facsimiles of Native spiritual tools and occult trends, "starter witch kits" of sage, rose quartz, and tarot cards packaged together in paper and plastic. Following a decade of abuse, addiction, PTSD, and heavy-duty drug treatment for a misdiagnosis of bipolar disorder, she felt drawn to the real spirits and powers her dispossessed and discarded ancestors knew, while she undertook necessary work to find love and meaning.

In this collection of intertwined essays, she writes about land, heartbreak, and colonization, about life without the escape hatch of intoxication, and about how she became a powerful witch. She interlaces stories from her forebears with cultural artifacts from her own life--Twin Peaks, the Oregon Trail II video game, a Claymation Satan, a YouTube video of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham--to explore questions of cultural inheritance and the particular danger, as a Native woman, of relaxing into romantic love under colonial rule.

Author: Elissa Washuta
Publisher: Tin House
Published: 04/27/2021
Pages: 432
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.60d
ISBN: 9781951142391


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/15/2021
Library Journal 03/01/2021 pg. 97
Booklist 03/01/2021 pg. 4
Foreword 02/26/2021
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2021

About the Author
Washuta is a member of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe and a nonfiction writer. She is the author of Starvation Mode and My Body Is a Book of Rules, named a finalist for the Washington State Book Award. With Theresa Warburton, she is co-editor of the anthology Shapes of Native Nonfiction: Collected Essays by Contemporary Writers. She is an assistant professor of creative writing at the Ohio State University.
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