Witches and witch trials remain a source of enduring curiosity. Julie Stone Peters, H. Gordon Garbedian Professor of English ...

Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates ...

Fern, newly arrived and newly pregnant, can only wonder at the cruelty and injustice until a mysterious librarian offers her a book on sisterhood and witchcraft. Then everything changes ...