‘For more than 200 years, the Owens women have been blamed for everything that has gone wrong in town,’ the story begins. They don’t have time for lives of quiet desperation-they’re too busy subduing ghosts and trying to figure out how much nightshade it takes to kill a grown man. The people in her latest novel, Practical Magic, live in a world of incantations and Formica, magic potions and linoleum. There’s something about those winding streets lined with identical houses that sets her to imagining witches, magicians, black cats, wicked crows, helpful toads, spells, hexes, presentiments. “Suburbia is where Alice Hoffman goes for a taste of dark magic.
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