![]() ![]() Any reader craving a dose of the impossible will be spellbound by this tender, powerful book. Magic Lessons is a universal tale about love and survival. But you definitely don’t have to have read those books to be riveted by Maria’s story. It’s a prequel to Hoffman’s bestselling Practical Magic and The Rules of Magic, and it showcases the same seamless blend of magic and reality. The prose is so lyrical it feels like an incantation, and Hoffman makes a distant historical moment seem as real and immediate as the present day. And voilà: the story of Maria Owens, a young witch whose quest for justice takes her into the dangerous world of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, where she lays down a curse that will stalk her family for generations. Combine them in the cauldron of 17th-century America (maybe, say, the Salem witch trials?). If Magic Lessons were a potion, its recipe might look something like this: Start with equal parts family saga, feminist creed, and love story. I also love brilliant genre fiction and complicated female characters-so basically, Alice Hoffman’s new novel, Magic Lessons, had me at hello. Every character in the story is disappointed by love, but also needs love. What are the magic lessons that Maria and Faith were first taught, and what are the lessons they learn to live by after overcoming suffering 11. ![]() ![]() I’ll happily spend hours discussing the movements of the zodiac, and I never met a tarot deck I didn’t want to own. How does Alice Hoffman weave Jewish history into the story 6. ![]()
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