Lessons in Magic and Disaster

De: Charlie Jane Anders

Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan, Marisa Calin, Sena Bryer

"Listeners will be captivated as each narrator provides glimpses of Jamie's present and Serena's past, interspersed with snippets from the book of magic that Jamie is studying." — AudioFile

In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a multicast audiobook full of love, disaster, and magic.

A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic--with very unexpected results--in this relatable, resonant novel about family, identity, and the power of love.

Jamie is basically your average New England academic in-training--she has a strong queer relationship, an esoteric dissertation proposal, and inherited generational trauma. But she has one extraordinary secret: she's also a powerful witch.

Serena, Jamie's mother, has been hiding from the world in an old one-room schoolhouse for several years, grieving the death of her wife and the simultaneous explosion in her professional life. All she has left are memories.

Jamie’s busy digging into a three-hundred-year-old magical book, but she still finds time to teach Serena to cast spells and help her come out of her shell. But Jamie doesn't know the whole story of what happened to her mom years ago, and those secrets are leading Serena down a destructive path.

Now it's up to this grad student and literature nerd to understand the secrets behind this mysterious novel from 1749, unearth a long-buried scandal hinted therein, and learn the true nature of magic, before her mother ruins both of their lives.

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Books

wonderful love letter to modern witchcraft

Charlie Jane Anders is one of the best authors working today and this book is another lovely entry in her portfolio

A truly magical experience

I’ve loved everything I’ve read from Charlie Jane Anders. I think she’s outdone herself with this story.
Instead of going broad and covering a lot, we get intimate with the characters and feel everything they’re going through, while being carried along by an engaging story that shows where magic works, and definitely doesn’t.
Thank you, Charlie Jane, I really enjoyed this one.

Brilliant and intricate

Such a beautiful book. Gripping and moving story, smart, interweaving of scholarship and magic. I loved every minute of it.

Too much. Just too much.

I’m sorry I am very liberal, but this book is just too much. I did not finish it and I regret buying it.