[Book Review] “For contemporary practitioners of Witchcraft, the novel demands wrestling with a complicated history,” Cosette Paneque writes. “These women weren’t claiming the identity of ‘Witch.’ They were sharing knowledge, building community, exercising what small control they could over their precarious lives.”

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Book Review: The Wax Child

"For contemporary practitioners of Witchcraft, the novel demands wrestling with a complicated history," Cosette Paneque writes. "These women weren't claiming the identity of 'Witch.' They were sharing knowledge, building community, exercising what small control they could over their precarious lives."

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