šāā¬ļø The Witches of Crambridge
5+ (I give + to books I know I will reread each year, when I need to be remembered of specific lessons) this is one of them.
There are two boos by this author that I love: The Red Garden and this one. Practical Magic will always have a place in my heart but these are my favorites.
Set mostly in the McCarthy presidency it's a scary mirror of what we are living nowadays. A lyrical tale of friendship, abuse from families, betrayal and sisterhood, female and male witches, past origin and witches & traditions, unveiling family secrets, homosexuality, what is legal or not, how to survive persucussion, pregnancies and limitations, freedom and earth magic. Very Wiccan. I loved it. I liked Ava, but Lauren was my favorite. Such strength.
There are so many quotes I would like to share with you, but I will leave one of the most powerful passages from this book (because I've listened to the audio forgive me the punctuation and if any word is not quite what the author wrote. Take the message not the accuracy not be accurate. It goes like this:
...men who saw evil where there was none, who took upon themselves to translate the words of God into a language that suited them. (...) I taught myself to write so I could give evidence to those who follow me, and every word was meant to the women... If you don't know your history you have no way to change what your fate might be. If you don't know who you are you can never save yourself or those you love, you can never walk-through the darkness unafraid. (...) We are the women descendent not from Eve but from Lilith, Adam's first his wife, the woman (...) cast into the wilderness because she would not do his bidding. She was his equal (...) so she processed a will of her own. (...) The man who hunt us tell themselves they must. (...) They write the laws and enforce them no matter the cost, yet thoughts of us terrify them in the middle of the night, waking theme from their trivial dreams in which they are the heroes of their own small lives. We are the life givers and the death givers, we raise children and create the world, yet they call us witches. Even when the trials ended the judges where replaced by gangs of men who vainly searched with ropes in their hands. They say we need to be punished by hurricanes and famines (...) when they look at us they don't see their own failure (...) ...they shoot one another, they fail their own sons, they're afraid to look in the mirror (...) They prefer the girl who ate the apple (...)who has been blamed for all if mankind's evil (...) let them call us she devils (...) we know who we are.
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