We Were Witches

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Call Number: Fiction / Gore, Ariel, Adult Book / Fiction / General / Gore, Ariel
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	Fiction / Gore, Ariel	4-week checkout	On Shelf
Malletts Adult Books 4-week checkout	Adult Book / Fiction / General / Gore, Ariel	4-week checkout	Due 05-10-2024

"Spurred on by nineties "family values" campaigns and determined to better herself through education, a teen mom talks her way into college. Disgusted by an overabundance of phallocratic narratives and Freytag's pyramid, she turns to a subcultural canon of resistance and failure. Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, it documents the survival of a demonized single mother figuring things out"-- Provided by publisher.
"In this novel, Ariel Gore is a teen mom, aspiring writer, and feminist witch trying to get a college education during the first Bush administration, all the while combating queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans"-- Provided by publisher.
Ariel Gore has been spurred on by nineties "family values" campaigns, and is determined to better herself through education. This teen mom, aspiring writer and feminist witch talks her way into college. She becomes disgusted by an overabundance of phallocratic narratives, while combating queer scapegoating, domestic violence, and high-interest student loans.

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Didn't make much sense to me submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on June 18, 2021, 10:04pm Wow, I really didn’t enjoy this memoir-ish novel. I listened to it, and strongly suspect that parts were written in verse, maybe?, because they had an odd rhythm and didn’t make a heck of a lot of sense. I’ve seen some things written about it that talk about “magical realism” and “experimentalism” and that’s all well and good, and I love science fiction and fantasy, so not-adhering-to-reality is not an issue for me. But I still want words to have meaning, and stories to have cohesion, and narrative to make sense to me. And for the first bit of the book (first quarter, maybe), this book didn’t. Eventually, the story part took over, and it got better from there. I did like the issues that Gore took on. But for me, a solid eventual grounding in issues couldn’t overcome the miasma that was the start.