“We Were Witches seizes the shame and hurt internalized by young women and turns it into magic art and poetry. Ariel Gore’s writing is a diamond pentacle carved into a living heart, transforming singular experience into universal knowledge.” —Susie Bright, author of Big Sex Little DeathAvailability: In stock. · ARIEL GORE is the author of We Were Witches (The Feminist Press, ), The End of Eve (Hawthorne Books, ), and numerous other books on parenting, the novel The Traveling Death and Resurrection Show, the memoir Atlas of the Human Heart, and the writer’s guide How to Become a Famous Writer Before You’re Dead.4/5. · Ariel Gore’s ‘We Were Witches’ is literary resistance. Night has fallen, and Ariel Gore tells her daughter Maia a bedtime story — but it’s certainly no fairytale. She reads to the infant Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.
A review of Ariel Gore's We Were Witches. I love this book. As person trained in literary criticism, I know better than to begin a book review this way. But as a mom who parented solo for years, I know Solo Moms don't have time to read book reviews. Ariel Gore's 'We Were Witches' is literary resistance. Night has fallen, and Ariel Gore tells her daughter Maia a bedtime story — but it's certainly no fairytale. She reads to the infant. Gore tells her story with such verve and wit I missed my train stop reading it. Then I rode and read a little further, pausing to glance up at the station names and at the several young mothers who shared my car, in love with their babies, immersed in their thoughts. We Were Witches. By Ariel Gore. Feminist Press. Paperback, , pp.
We Were Witches by Ariel Gore is that book. Released in September by Feminist Press, it is everything you didn’t know you were allowed to want in a narrative.” —Autostraddle. Now you can get signed copies of Ariel Gore’s new novel, We Were Witches, direct from www.doorway.ru $18 includes postage your own spell book. We Were Witches by Ariel Gore is part memoir, part fictional story of a single mom in the 90s written in an experimental fragmented way. It was captivating to read because I tend to like unconventional books, esp unconventional books about womanhood and critiques of society/literature canon, etc. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ There were some parts that were. So Ariel turns to a rich subcultural canon of resistance and failure, populated by writers like Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Gloria Anzaldúa, Tillie Olsen, and Kathy Acker. Wryly riffing on feminist literary tropes, We Were Witches documents the survival of a demonized single mother. She’s beset by custody disputes, homophobia, and America’s ever-present obsession with shaming odd women into passive citizenship.
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