In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders’s own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love,disasterand magic. A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic–with very unexpected results–in this relatableresonant novel about familyidentityand the power of love. Jamie is basically your average New England academic in-training–she has a strong queer relationshipan esoteric dissertation proposaland inherited generational trauma. But she has one extraordinary secret: she’s also a powerful witch. SerenaJamie’s motherhas been hiding from the world in an old one-room schoolhouse for several yearsgrieving the death of her wife and the simultaneous explosion in her professional life. All she has left are memories. JamieΓÇÖs busy digging into a three-hundred-year-old magical bookbut 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 agoand 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 1749unearth a long-buried scandal hinted thereinand learn the true nature of magicbefore her mother ruins both of their lives.