Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch

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This beguiling historical novel by Rivka Galchen is one of our favorites. Inspired by the true story of Katharina Kepler, mother of Johannes Kepler, Imperial Mathematician and renowned astronomer, it draws on real historical documents to tell the tale. Galchen brings to life the Holy Roman Empire in the early seventeenth-century, when an outspoken widow known for her herbal remedies is accused of witchcraft and faces financial ruin, torture, and even execution. A great read. (paperback, 2021)

“Galchen is an inventor and fabulist of the highest order . . . The story is winding and hallucinatory, full of poison, gossip, and astral musings. Drawing partly from historical documents, the world Galchen creates feels more than just real. It feels haunted.” –New York

“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.” –BuzzFeed

“The tale has lessons for our own time about the power of fear and superstition to foment evil.” –Oprah Daily

“The comedy that runs through Everyone… 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 . . .” –The Washington Post

“. . .a thought-provoking take on the proverbial witch hunt . . . Punctuated with sparkling wit and irreverent humor, it taps into the depths of who we choose to fear and why.” –Time

$18.00