![]() ![]() ![]() "The worldbuilding is richly detailed, inclusive, and enchanting, while still honoring the harsher history of civil rights and resistance. Compelling, exhilarating, and magical, The Once and Future Witches is a must-read." - Booklist (starred review) "This novel cleverly connects the dots between the suffragist movement of the past to the Me Too movement of today. Harrow, check out The Ten Thousand Doors of January. Stalked by shadows and sickness, hunted by forces who will not suffer a witch to vote - and perhaps not even to live - the sisters will need to delve into the oldest magics, draw new alliances, and heal the bond between them if they want to survive. If the modern woman wants any measure of power, she must find it at the ballot box.īut when the Eastwood sisters - James Juniper, Agnes Amaranth, and Beatrice Belladonna - join the suffragists of New Salem, they begin to pursue the forgotten words and ways that might turn the women's movement into the witch's movement. There used to be, in the wild, dark days before the burnings began, but now witching is nothing but tidy charms and nursery rhymes. ![]() In 1893, there's no such thing as witches. In the late 1800s, three sisters use witchcraft to change the course of history in a Hugo award-winning author's powerful novel of magic amid the suffragette movement. ![]()
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![]() ![]() At first, Cassia is content to dismiss the error and enjoy her Match with Xander, but she finds herself increasingly drawn to Ky. She explains that Ky is classified as an Aberration-which means he can never be Matched. An Official, a member of the Government police force, soon pays Cassia a visit to tell her that her Match with Ky was a mistake. After Xander’s face appears on the port screen, the face of another boy whom Cassia knows, Ky Markham, also pops up. However, Cassia’s life begins to change when she inserts her microcard containing information about Xander into her home port (a computer). ![]() She naively accepts the path laid out for her by the Society. ![]() She enjoys a life of comfort living in Oria Province with her parents and 10-year-old brother, Bram, and looks forward to her future with Xander. Cassia is thrilled to be Matched with her best friend, Xander Carrow, whom she has known since childhood. Nearly every facet of life in the Society is tightly controlled, including romantic relationships, which are initiated at the Match Banquet. The Banquet is a required event for nearly all citizens of the Society-a dystopian reality that exists at some point in the future. Matched begins on the eve of protagonist Cassia Maria Reyes’s Match Banquet-which also happens to be her 17th birthday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Louis) doctoral study, Cornell UniversityĮlizabeth Graver is the author Awake, The Honey Thief, and Unravelling. Education-B.A., Wesleyan University M.F.A., Washington.A haunting novel of memory and desire, The Honey Thief reveals the healing power of friendship and the ineradicable bonds of mother and child. It is only when Eva meets a reclusive beekeeper that she-and her mother-can find their way back to each other, and can begin life with renewed promise. There, she hopes, they can have the normal life she longs for.īut Miriam is bound by a past she is trying to forget, and tensions escalate. ![]() The summer that eleven-year-old Eva is caught shoplifting (for the fourth time), her mother, Miriam, decides the only solution is to move out of the city to a quiet town in upstate New York. Now, in her second novel, she proves herself to be a major voice in American fiction. Summary | Author | Book Reviews | Discussion QuestionsĮlizabeth Graver's first novel, Unravelling, was hailed on publication as "exceptional" ( New York Times Book Review), "a pleasure" ( New Yorker), and "exquisitely poignant and sensual" ( Boston Globe). ![]() |