![]() Those of us who don’t quite fit-witches, rebels, bookworms, free spirits. Hoffman’s words are a love song to the people who go against the grain. ![]() ![]() But like the wise aunt Jet says, “Everything worthwhile is dangerous.” What is more worthwhile than family and love? Here are three generations of the Owens family doing everything they can to break the curse that has plagued them for over two centuries. The large cast of characters welcome you and whisper their secrets in prophetic dreams and old spell books waiting for fate to open their pages. But I returned to their curious house in Massachusetts because it felt like being welcomed home after a long time away. When I opened the first page, I wasn’t ready to say goodbye to these witchy women I got to know in the classic Practical Magic. The Book of Magic is a book about belief in the most ephemeral things-love, magic, and hope.Īlice Hoffman concludes the story of the Owens family with a joyous cry of a novel. Sometimes I believe that the constellations have conspired to steal my luck. Sometimes it’s that a cup of tea or coffee can cure any mood. In what, I’m not always sure, but there’s always a pulse of it there. ![]()
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