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Witches on the Road Tonight

Sheri Holman

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#2441 of 8,085 books · #237 in Horror

Won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel (2011).

As a child growing up in Depression-era rural Virginia, Eddie Alley's quiet life is rooted in the rumors of his mother's witchcraft. But when an outsider violently disrupts the spell of his mother's unorthodox life, Eddie is inspired to pursue a future beyond the confines of his dead-end town. He leaves for New York and becomes a television horror-movie presenter beloved for his kitschy comedy. When he opens his family's door to a homeless teenager working as an intern at the TV station, the boy's presence not only awakens something in Eddie, but also in his twelve-year-old daughter, Wallis, who has begun to feel a strange kinship to her notorious grandmother. As the ghost stories of one generation infiltrate the next, Wallis and Eddie grapple with the sins of the past in this gripping novel that explores Americana, witchcraft, love, and betrayal.

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Publisher
Grove Press
ISBN-13
9780802195975
Topics
Family secrets and generational legacyWitchcraft and folkloreComing of age

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