βThis richly layered novelβ 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 Alleyβs quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his motherβs witchcraft. But when an outsider violently disrupts the spell of his motherβs 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 familyβs door to a homeless teenager working as an intern at the TV station, the boyβs 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 βexplores the dark vein of magic that runs just beneath our real livesβ (The New York Times Book Review).
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βHolman is a master of the miniature. She uses tiny, achingly accurate details to bring each moment to life on the page; her sentences singΒ .Β .Β . [her] most ambitious and successful yet.β βPeople, starred review
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βHolman has an imagination that is both capacious and meticulous, and by turns somber and anticΒ .Β .Β . Witches on the Road TonightΒ is a path into her work that beckons, with strange lights and mysterious apparitions.β βJane Smiley, Los Angeles Review of Books
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βMysterious, beautiful, and immediately engrossingΒ .Β .Β . A tour de force of meticulous research brought urgently to life by headlong, transporting prose.β βJennifer Egan, author of Manhattan Beach and A Visit From the Goon Squad