We are very excited to welcome back 
Charlie Jane Anders
 for a book event celebrating her newest release, 
Lessons in Magic and Disaster. 
For this event, Anders will be in conversation with 
Michi Trota
! 
Please note: All of our events are free to attend, but registration is required. Masks are required for our in-person events.
In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own 
All the Birds in the Sky
 comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic.
A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic--with very unexpected results--in this relatable, resonant novel about family, identity, and the power of love.
Jamie is basically your average New England academic in-training--she has a strong queer relationship, an esoteric dissertation proposal, and inherited generational trauma. But she has one extraordinary secret: she's also a powerful witch.Serena, Jamie's mother, has been hiding from the world in an old one-room schoolhouse for several years, grieving the death of her wife and the simultaneous explosion in her professional life. All she has left are memories.Jamie’s busy digging into a three-hundred-year-old magical book, but she still finds time to teach Serena to cast spells and help her come out of her shell. But Jamie doesn't know the whole story of what happened to her mom years ago, and those secrets are leading Serena down a destructive path.Now it's up to this grad student and literature nerd to understand the secrets behind this mysterious novel from 1749, unearth a long-buried scandal hinted therein, and learn the true nature of magic, before her mother ruins both of their lives.
Charlie Jane Anders 
is the author of 
Lessons in Magic and Disaster
, coming August 2025 from Tor Books. Her other novels include 
All the Birds in the Sky
, 
The City in the Middle of the Night
 and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She's also the author of the short story collection 
Even Greater Mistakes
, and 
Never Say You Can't Survive
 (August 2021), a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running 
New Mutants
 comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the 
Washington Post
. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.
Michi Trota
 is a five-time Hugo Award-winning Filipino American writer, editor, cultural critic, and fire performer. Her work explores how to exercise empowerment, representation, autonomy, and storytelling for collective liberation and to dismantle oppressive institutions. She is the Executive Editor at Green America.
Accessibility:
 This event is hosted at the bookstore, which is a wheelchair accessible space. Masks are required. Seating is on a first-come, first-serve basis. To request ASL interpretation for this event, please email 
events@womenandchildrenfirst.com
 by no later than 14 days before the event. For scholarship tickets or other access needs please email 
events@womenandchildrenfirst.com
.
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