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KATHERINE HOWE
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The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane
Harvard Book Store is pleased and intrigued to welcome historian and fiction writer KATHERINE HOWE—a descendant of Elizabeth Proctor, who survived the Salem witch trials, and Elizabeth Howe, who did not—for a reading from her first novel. Written with astonishing conviction and grace, The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane travels seamlessly between the witch trials of the 1690s and a modern woman's story of mystery, intrigue, and revelation. "Historian Howe’s spellbinding, vividly detailed, witty, and astutely plotted debut is deeply rooted in her family connection to accused seventeenth-century witches Elizabeth Howe and Elizabeth Proctor and propelled by an illuminating view of witchcraft. In all a keen and magical historical mystery laced with romance and sly digs at society’s persistent underestimation of women. —Booklist (starred) "A fresh present-day story infused with an original take on popular history. Forget broomsticks and pointy hats; here are witches that could well be walking among us today. This debut novel flows with poetic charm and eloquence that achieves high literary merit while concocting a gripping supernatural puzzler. Katherine Howe's talent is spellbinding." —Matthew Pearl (The Dante Club)
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