Virtual Event: Rivka Galchen and Paul La Farge

Tuesday, June 29, 2021 - 6:00pm


Join us on Tuesday, June 29 at 6pm PT when Rivka Galchen is joined by Paul La Farge to discuss her latest novel, Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch, on Zoom!

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Praise for Rivka Galchen
“Skillful, imaginative, often funny . . . In that grand tradition of American innovators, perhaps Ms. Galchen’s greatest artistic creation is herself.” — Adam Langer, The New York Times Book Review

“To read Rivka Galchen is to enter a wonderland where the bizarre and the mundane march in unlikely lockstep.” —Michael Lindgren, The Washington Post

About Everyone Knows Your Mother is a Witch
The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances

The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Württemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch.

Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It's enough to make anyone jealous, and Katharina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone's business. So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her, the Werewolf) accuses Katherina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill, Katharina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin, torture, and even execution, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets.

Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which Rivka Galchen is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain. The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. Galchen's bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition, the state, and the mortal convulsions of history.

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel By Rivka Galchen Cover Image
$27.00
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ISBN: 9780374280468
Published: Farrar, Straus and Giroux - June 8th, 2021

The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.


The Night Ocean: A Novel By Paul La Farge Cover Image
$19.00
ISBN: 9781101981092
Availability: NOT on our shelves now. Usually ships from warehouse in several days.
Published: Penguin Books - April 3rd, 2018

From the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals,  psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.


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