âThis richly layered novelâ from the acclaimed author of The Dress Lodger explores Americana, witchcraft, love, and betrayal (People, starred review).
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As a child growing up in Depression-era rural Virginia, Eddie Alleyâs quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his motherâs witchcraft. But when an outsider violently disrupts the spell of his motherâs unorthodox life, Eddie is inspired to pursue a future beyond the confines of his dead-end town.
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He leaves for New York and becomes a television horror-movie presenter beloved for his kitschy comedy. When he opens his familyâs door to a homeless teenager working as an intern at the TV station, the boyâs presence not only awakens something in Eddie, but also in his twelve-year-old daughter, Wallis, who has begun to feel a strange kinship to her notorious grandmother.
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As the ghost stories of one generation infiltrate the next, Wallis and Eddie grapple with the sins of the past in this gripping novel that âexplores the dark vein of magic that runs just beneath our real livesâ (The New York Times Book Review).
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âHolman is a master of the miniature. She uses tiny, achingly accurate details to bring each moment to life on the page; her sentences sing . . . [her] most ambitious and successful yet.â âPeople, starred review
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âHolman has an imagination that is both capacious and meticulous, and by turns somber and antic . . . Witches on the Road Tonight is a path into her work that beckons, with strange lights and mysterious apparitions.â âJane Smiley, Los Angeles Review of Books
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âMysterious, beautiful, and immediately engrossing . . . A tour de force of meticulous research brought urgently to life by headlong, transporting prose.â âJennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach and A Visit From the Goon Squad