"Galchen is an inventor and fabulist of the highest order: Her narratives are rigorous, antic creations that explore deceit, misinformation, identity, and the nature of knowledge. Her latest puzzle box of a novel is a surrealist horror story set in the 17th century . the story is winding and hallucinatory, full of poison, gossip, and astral musings." --Kevin Lozano, Vulture " Galchen strikes the perfect balance between historical accuracy and modern humor to render Katharina vividly -- a strong-willed, big-hearted healer and mother . It''s at once an illuminating account of history and a timely, provocative study of weaponized morality, group hysteria, and the villainization of powerful women." --Arianna Rebolini, Buzzfeed "Bewitching . Galchen is a sorcerer--a conjurer of the weird and wonderful. The tale has lessons for our own time about the power of fear and superstition to foment evil.
But Galchen''s playful, poetic sentences uplift and transport, like fairy tale magic." -- Oprah Daily "It is remarkable that Rivka Galchen''s "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" manages to pull off what, broadly speaking, is a witch story, one that is as serious as Miller''s play and as playful as Updike''s novel but does not fall prey to the pitfalls of either . a persuasive and very beautiful work of fiction. Or, it''s not strange at all, given how everything that Ms. Galchen has written to date has been singular." --Wyatt Mason, Wall Street Journal "Delightfully funny . Galchen has written another smart book that investigates the power of narrative, both good and bad, foregrounding a woman who''d only been a footnote to a famous man''s story, all while being funny and deceptively easy to read. It''s quite a magic trick.
" --Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times " The comedy that runs through [ Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch t and transport, like fairy tale magic." -- Oprah Daily "It is remarkable that Rivka Galchen''s "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" manages to pull off what, broadly speaking, is a witch story, one that is as serious as Miller''s play and as playful as Updike''s novel but does not fall prey to the pitfalls of either . a persuasive and very beautiful work of fiction. Or, it''s not strange at all, given how everything that Ms. Galchen has written to date has been singular." --Wyatt Mason, Wall Street Journal "Delightfully funny . Galchen has written another smart book that investigates the power of narrative, both good and bad, foregrounding a woman who''d only been a footnote to a famous man''s story, all while being funny and deceptively easy to read. It''s quite a magic trick.
" --Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times " The comedy that runs through [ Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch t and transport, like fairy tale magic." -- Oprah Daily "It is remarkable that Rivka Galchen''s "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" manages to pull off what, broadly speaking, is a witch story, one that is as serious as Miller''s play and as playful as Updike''s novel but does not fall prey to the pitfalls of either . a persuasive and very beautiful work of fiction. Or, it''s not strange at all, given how everything that Ms. Galchen has written to date has been singular." --Wyatt Mason, Wall Street Journal "Delightfully funny . Galchen has written another smart book that investigates the power of narrative, both good and bad, foregrounding a woman who''d only been a footnote to a famous man''s story, all while being funny and deceptively easy to read. It''s quite a magic trick.
" --Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times " The comedy that runs through [ Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch t and transport, like fairy tale magic." -- Oprah Daily "It is remarkable that Rivka Galchen''s "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" manages to pull off what, broadly speaking, is a witch story, one that is as serious as Miller''s play and as playful as Updike''s novel but does not fall prey to the pitfalls of either . a persuasive and very beautiful work of fiction. Or, it''s not strange at all, given how everything that Ms. Galchen has written to date has been singular." --Wyatt Mason, Wall Street Journal "Delightfully funny . Galchen has written another smart book that investigates the power of narrative, both good and bad, foregrounding a woman who''d only been a footnote to a famous man''s story, all while being funny and deceptively easy to read. It''s quite a magic trick.
" --Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times " The comedy that runs through [ Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch e magic." -- Oprah Daily "It is remarkable that Rivka Galchen''s "Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch" manages to pull off what, broadly speaking, is a witch story, one that is as serious as Miller''s play and as playful as Updike''s novel but does not fall prey to the pitfalls of either . a persuasive and very beautiful work of fiction. Or, it''s not strange at all, given how everything that Ms. Galchen has written to date has been singular." --Wyatt Mason, Wall Street Journal "Delightfully funny . Galchen has written another smart book that investigates the power of narrative, both good and bad, foregrounding a woman who''d only been a footnote to a famous man''s story, all while being funny and deceptively easy to read. It''s quite a magic trick.
" --Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times " The comedy that runs through [ Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch ] is a magical brew of absurdity and brutality. Galchen has a Kafkaesque sense of the way the exercise of authority inflates egos and twists logic . There''s real sorcery here, but it arises only from the way Galchen fuses ancient and modern consciousness." --Ron Charles, Washington Post "Rivka Galchen''s smart, wry novel Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a thought-provoking take on the proverbial witch hunt . Punctuated with sparkling wit and irreverent humor, [the novel] taps into the depths of who we choose to fear and why." -- Time " Darkly funny . It''s this dry humour that makes the novel sparkle. Galchen''s evocation of Katharina is so vivid, and has such verve, that she transcends her figure, and becomes a character.
" --Baya Simons, Financial Times " It''s that perfect combination of snark and the promise of magic . [Galchen''s] writing always has teeth--this novel, culled from real-life historical documents but blessed with Galchen''s invention and insight, does not disappoint." --Katie Yee, Lithub "Galchen''s novel is exuberant -- funny and urgent and full of a singular energy. Though based on a true story, it beautifully demonstrates Galchen''s limber imagination and ability to find narrative harmony in the chaos of our world." -- Refinery29 (38 Books You''ll Want to Read This Summer) "I want to bottle up the hilarious and infuriating energy of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch and offer it to the creators of the paltry, meager little things that pass for novels these days: This is how you do it! . Not only does Galchen create in Katharina one of the wryest and funniest voices I''ve heard in a long time, she also manages to write a brilliant treatise on the inflation of a small lie into a huge one, and the merry-go-round of accusations that have plagued women since Eve ( allegedly ) took a bite out of that apple." --Hannah Gersen, The Millions (Most Anticipated Books of 2021) "Imagine a story set in 1620 that speaks directly to your own scalded, twenty-first century heart. By Rivka Galchen''s magic, Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch instantly became one of my favorite books.
I need no witchcraft to predict it will astonish, beguile, and transform you, too." --Karen Russell, author of Orange World "Galchen''s latest book, which is by turns witty, sly, moving, and sharp, is a marvel to behold . There is so much in this novel to consider--the degree to which we make monsters of one another, the way that old age can make of femininity an apparently terrifying, otherworldly thing--but it is also, at every step along the way, an entirely delicious book. Dazzling in its humor, intelligence, and the richness of its created world." -- Kirkus " In this compelling look at women''s rights and the invented crime of witchcraft, the surprise is that the perseverance of the accused shifts the focus from victimhood to basic mortality and the challenge of dealing with death and illness before a coherent understanding of disease existed. Highly recommended." -- Library Journal "Though the story unfolds in seventeenth-century Germany, Galchen gives Kath and the rest of her characters modern speech habits in a way that retains authenticity and makes for compulsively readable prose . Enchanted creatures and enticing oddEve ( allegedly ) took a bite out of that apple.
" --Hannah Gersen, The Millions (Most Anticipated Books of 2021) "Imagine a story set in 1620 tha.