The Once and Future Witches
Book • 2020
Alix E. Harrow's 'The Once and Future Witches' is a historical fantasy novel set at the turn of the 20th century that reimagines the suffrage movement with a reclaimed tradition of witchcraft.
The story follows three sisters who band together to revive magic and use it as a tool of resistance against patriarchal power structures.
Harrow blends political urgency, feminist themes, and folkloric imagination, delivering emotional resonance alongside imaginative worldbuilding.
The novel engages with questions of solidarity, memory, and collective power while offering stirring, lyrical prose.
It was widely discussed for its timely themes and its energetic melding of history and speculative elements.
The story follows three sisters who band together to revive magic and use it as a tool of resistance against patriarchal power structures.
Harrow blends political urgency, feminist themes, and folkloric imagination, delivering emotional resonance alongside imaginative worldbuilding.
The novel engages with questions of solidarity, memory, and collective power while offering stirring, lyrical prose.
It was widely discussed for its timely themes and its energetic melding of history and speculative elements.
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Recommended by Drew as a new novel blending suffrage-era history and witchcraft, praised as ambitious and timely before the election.
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