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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch audiobook

  • By: Rivka Galchen
  • Narrator: Natasha Soudek
  • Category: Fiction, Historical
  • Length: 8 hours 47 minutes
  • Publisher: Macmillan Audio
  • Publish date: June 08, 2021
  • Language: English
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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch Audiobook Summary

“It’s both transfixing and destabilizing. It’s the best thing I listened to all winter.” —Alexis Gunderson, PASTE Magazine

The startling, witty, highly anticipated second novel from Rivka Galchen, the critically acclaimed author of Atmospheric Disturbances.

The story begins in 1618, in the German duchy of Wurttemberg. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years’ War has begun, and fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler is accused of being a witch.

Katharina is an illiterate widow, known by her neighbors for her herbal remedies and the success of her children, including her eldest, Johannes, who is the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion. It’s enough to make anyone jealous, and Katharina has done herself no favors by being out and about and in everyone’s business.

So when the deranged and insipid Ursula Reinbold (or as Katharina calls her, the Werewolf) accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill, Katharina is in trouble. Her scientist son must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. Facing the threat of financial ruin, torture, and even execution, Katharina tells her side of the story to her friend and next-door neighbor Simon, a reclusive widower imperiled by his own secrets.

Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which Rivka Galchen is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch will both provoke and entertain. The story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear is a tale for our time. Galchen’s bold new novel touchingly illuminates a society and a family undone by superstition, the state, and the mortal convulsions of history.

A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch Audiobook Narrator

Natasha Soudek is the narrator of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch audiobook that was written by Rivka Galchen

Rivka Galchen received her MD from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine, having spent a year in South America working on public health issues. Galchen completed her MFA at Columbia University, where she was a Robert Bingham Fellow. Her essay on the Many Worlds Interpretation of quantum mechanics was published in The Believer, and she is the recipient of a 2006 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award. Galchen lives in New York City. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances.

About the Author(s) of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

Rivka Galchen is the author of Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch

Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch Full Details

Narrator Natasha Soudek
Length 8 hours 47 minutes
Author Rivka Galchen
Category
Publisher Macmillan Audio
Release date June 08, 2021
ISBN 9781250818232

Subjects

The publisher of the Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is Macmillan Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Historical

Additional info

The publisher of the Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is Macmillan Audio. The imprint is Macmillan Audio. It is supplied by Macmillan Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781250818232.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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