Critter Chat: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix

Name: Critter Chat: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
Start: 2025-02-26T19:00:00-05:00
Location: Later Alligator

Schedule

Wed, 26 Feb, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Later Alligator | Wheeling, WV

A new Grady book! If you’ve been with us for a bit, you know a lot of us are big Grady Hendrix fans. This will be his second book that we’ve read together and it’ll be brand new! It comes out in mid-January, so get those library holds in, preorder it, or add it to your Christmas wish list. See you at Gator for $5 Wine Wednesday, $1 off martinis, and other delicious food and drinks! 🐊 As always, you’re welcome to come book whether or not you’re eating or finishing the book.
Description:
“There's power in a book...
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they're sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and most important of all, to forget any of it ever happened.
Fifteen-year-old Fern arrives at the home in the sweltering summer of 1970, pregnant, terrified and alone. Under the watchful eye of the stern Miss Wellwood, she meets a dozen other girls in the same predicament. There's Rose, a hippie who insists she's going to find a way to keep her baby and escape to a commune. And Zinnia, a budding musician who plans to marry her baby's father. And Holly, a wisp of a girl, barely fourteen, mute and pregnant by no-one-knows-who.
Everything the girls eat, every moment of their waking day, and everything they're allowed to talk about is strictly controlled by adults who claim they know what's best for them. Then Fern meets a librarian who gives her an occult book about witchcraft, and power is in the hands of the girls for the first time in their lives. But power can destroy as easily as it creates, and it's never given freely. There's always a price to be paid...and it's usually paid in blood.
In Witchcraft for Wayward Girls, the author of How to Sell a Haunted House and The Final Girl Support Group delivers another searing, completely original novel and further cements his status as a ‘horror master’ NPR).”