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Lessons in Magic and Disaster by Charlie Jane Anders

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Lessons in Magic and Disaster

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Charlie Jane Anders

Tor/Forge · Ebook · August 19, 2025

Reading lane: FICTION / Fantasy / Cozy

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.

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Good for readers interested in familyGood for fans of FantasyGood for readers who enjoy FICTION / Fantasy / Cozy and Witch Romance.

Book Details

Authors
Charlie Jane Anders
Publisher
Tor/Forge
Published
August 19, 2025
Format
Ebook
Theme
FICTION / Fantasy / Cozy · Witch Romance
Reading lane
FICTION / Fantasy / Cozy

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Publisher Categories

  • Contemporary Fantasy

  • Literary Fiction

  • LGBTQ+ Romance

About This Book

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 the average New England academic in-training--she has a strong queer relationship, generational trauma, and an esoteric dissertation proposal. But she has one extraordinary sec...

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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 the average New England academic in-training--she has a strong queer relationship, generational trauma, and an esoteric dissertation proposal. 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.

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