Lessons in magic and disaster

"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...

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Main Author: Anders, Charlie Jane (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Tor, Tor Publishing Group, 2025.
Edition:First edition.
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300 |a 311 pages ;  |c 25 cm. 
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520 |a "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 basically your average New England academic in-training--she has a strong queer relationship, an esoteric dissertation proposal, and inherited generational trauma. 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"--  |c Provided by publisher. 
590 |a Genre sticker: Fantasy. 
650 0 |a Mothers and daughters  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Grief  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Witches  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Women graduate students  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Woman-woman relationships  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Secrecy  |v Fiction. 
650 0 |a Magic  |v Fiction. 
655 7 |a Fantasy fiction.  |2 lcgft 
655 7 |a Queer fiction.  |2 lcgft 
655 7 |a Domestic fiction.  |2 lcgft 
655 7 |a Witch fiction.  |2 lcgft 
949 |a CCL  |b CadFIC  |c F Anders  |d i  |e 39241503892361  |f 804898  |g loc  |j 09/16/2025 
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