Description
This inspirational "magic-infused narrative . . . is a moving account of a young writer and mother striving to claim her own agency and find her voice" (Publishers Weekly).
Buying into the dream that education is the road out of poverty, a teen mom takes a chance on bettering herself and talks her way into college. But once she's there, phallocratic narratives permeate every subject.
Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single lesbian mother as she's beset by custody disputes, homophobia, and America's ever-present obsession with shaming unconventional women into passive citizenship.
But even as the narrator struggles to graduate, a question uncomfortably lingers: If you're dealing with precarious parenthood, queer identity, and debt, what is the true narrative shape of your experience?
Author: Ariel Gore
Publisher: Amethyst Editions
Published: 09/05/2017
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.40w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9781558614338
ISBN10: 1558614338
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Coming of Age
- Fiction | LGBTQ+ | Lesbian
About the Author
Ariel Gore is a journalist, memoirist, novelist, nonfiction author, and teacher. She is a graduate of Mills College and the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism. She is the founding editor/publisher of Hip Mama, an Alternative Press Award-winning publication covering the culture and politics of motherhood.