Writer in Residence Wyatt Mason Reviews Rivka Galchen’s Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

“It is remarkable that Rivka Galchen’s Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch manages to pull off what, broadly speaking, is a witch story, one that is as serious as (Arthur) Miller’s play (The Crucible) and as playful as (John) Updike’s novel (The Witches of Eastwick) but does not fall prey to the pitfalls of either,” writes Mason in the Wall Street Journal. “Not an allegory, not a satire, not a revisionist witch story, not a history lesson—a lot of nots, I realize—but instead a persuasive and very beautiful work of fiction.”
 

Post Date: 06-04-2021