Marrow

A searing take on femininity and power,Marrow transports readers to a small island off the coast of Mainewhere a coven has done the seemingly impossible. The day Oona was kicked out of her motherΓÇÖs covenshe gave up on her dreams of harnessing the witchcraft that was her birthright. Years latershe’s carved out an ordinary life with her husbandthough she is filled with a longing she can barely name. If she could only become a motherthenΓÇöaccording to island loreΓÇöshe will come into her magic. But after years of being unable to carry a pregnancy to termOona begins to feel desperate. Without the money to seek medical treatmentshe decides she must return to the ruggedwindswept island where she was raisedΓÇöand to her darkenigmatic mother . . . a witch who gives childless women the chance to become mothers. Oona returns under the cover of anonymityhoping for an answer. Butdespite a celebrity clientele and a long wait-listthere are dark forces at work on the islandand as her time there grows more harrowingthe truth threatens to come to light. How far will Oona go to access the power her mother commands? Tender and intensewitchy and wiseand written in prose that glitters and seethesMarrow is a gripping novel about the complex bonds between mothers and daughtersabout what we must believe in order to imagine a future for ourselvesand what we must let go in order to fully live it.