Toil & Trouble
15 Tales of Women and Witchcraft
by Jessica Spotswood, Tess Sharpe, Tehlor Kay Mejia, Andrea Cremer, Lindsay Smith, Brandy Colbert, Shveta Thakrar, Robin Talley, Nova Ren Suma, Zoraida Córdova, Brenna Yovanoff, Kate Hart, Anna-Marie McLemore, Emery Lord, Elizabeth May
*Are you a good witch or a bad witch?* Glinda the Good Witch. Elphaba the Wicked Witch. Willow. Sabrina. Gemma Doyle. The Mayfair Witches. Ursula the Sea Witch. Morgan le Fey. The three weird sisters from *Macbeth*. History tells us women accused of witchcraft were often outsiders: educated, independent, unmarried, unwilling to fall in line with traditional societal expectations. Bold. Powerful. Rebellious. A bruja’s traditional love spell has unexpected results. A witch’s healing hands begin to take life instead of giving it when she ignores her attraction to a fellow witch. In a terrifying future, women are captured by a cabal of men crying witchcraft and the one true witch among them must fight to free them all. In a desolate past, three orphaned sisters prophesize for a murderous king. Somewhere in the present, a teen girl just wants to kiss a boy without causing a hurricane. From good witches to bad witches, to witches who are a bit of both, this is an anthology of diverse witchy tales from a collection of diverse, feminist authors. The collective strength of women working together—magically or mundanely--has long frightened society, to the point that women’s rights are challe
For young readers
Book data: Open Library