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NATIONAL BESTSELLER!
"VenCo is funny, tense and cracking with a dark, divine energy." --Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The Sentence
"An absolute thrill ride of a book, a page-turner of the highest order." --Toronto Star
From the bestselling author of Empire of Wild, a wickedly subversive, deliciously imaginative, deeply feminist novel of contemporary witches on the rise--a book that only the supremely gifted storyteller Cherie Dimaline could write.
Lucky St. James, orphaned daughter of a bad-ass Métis good-times girl, is barely hanging on to her nowhere life when she finds out that she and her grandmother, Stella, are about to be evicted from their apartment. One night, dejectedly doing laundry in the building's dank basement, Lucky feels an irresistible something calling her. Crawling through a hidden hole in the wall, she finds a tarnished silver spoon depicting a storybook hag over letters that spell out S-A-L-E-M--a spoon whose otherwordly energy soon connects her to a teeming network of witches who have been anxiously waiting for her.
Chief among them is Salem-born Meena Good, finder of a matching spoon. Under the wing of the international headhunting firm VenCo, devoted to placing exceptional women in influential jobs, Meena has been collecting these spoons, and the witches who found them, in order to former a magic circle that will restore women to their rightful power.
But now, with only one more spoon to find, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter has Meena's coven in his sights. As the clock ticks toward a now-or-never deadline, Meena sends Lucky and her grandmother on a dangerous, sometimes hilarious, road trip in search of the seventh spoon. It ends in the darkly magical city of New Orleans and a final confrontation that will either usher in a new beginning or force witches to remain underground forever.
About this Author
CHERIE DIMALINE's 2017 blockbuster book, The Marrow Thieves, won numerous international awards and was named one of Time magazine's best 100 YA books of all time. Her novel Empire of Wild became an instant Canadian bestseller, was named Indigo's #1 Best Book of 2019, and was featured in The New York Times and The New Yorker. Her YA novel, Hunting by Stars was selected as a 2022 American Indian Library Association Youth Literature Young Adult Honor Book. A member of the Georgian Bay Métis Community in Ontario, Cherie is currently writing for television, working on a new novel and adapting works for the stage and screen.
Reviews
"Bring magic back into your life with the compulsively readable VenCo, a thundering, fantastical road trip with the wily Lucky St. James, her unpredictable grandmother, the witches they are trying to unite and the man who wants to end them all." --Eden Robinson
"Once I opened VenCo, I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real. VenCo is funny, tense and cracking with a dark, divine energy." --Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of The Sentence
"Crackling with magic, mystery, adventure, and intrigue, VenCo is a captivating tribute to the bonds of families we are born into and the ones that we create, and a delightful testament to the power of all womankind." --Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure
"Spellbinding and utterly original, VenCo shows the power women can wield when we join forces." --Kirsten Miller, author of The Change
"A gripping, witchy romp of a novel. It's impossible not to fall in love with Stella and Lucky." --BuzzFeed
"Fast, fun, full of charms. . . . A propulsive read full of intriguing detail, this novel is well-written, engaging and, more than anything, enjoyable. The reader will feel genuine affection for Dimaline's irreverent, badass witches as they battle for the future of their family and the future of the world, one and the same in Dimaline's inclusive vision." --Kirkus Reviews
"Subversive and imaginative." --CBC
"VenCo is an absolute thrill ride of a book, a page-turner of the highest order. It is also, as one would expect from Dimaline, a smart book. . . . VenCo is a powerful and unique reading experience, threaded through with humour and peril. It's a perfect novel for a winter's day, because sometimes, our reading life needs a touch of magic." --Toronto Star
"A vibrantly diverse cross section of womanhood as well as folk beliefs and magical thought across the country. . . . Fans of magical realism and ladies getting stuff done will enjoy this ride." --Booklist
"Fast-paced and fun." --Winnipeg Free Press
"It's hard to say whether the characters or the plot [are] more enjoyable. VenCo has so much going on, and so much going for it. You won't regret picking this one up (unless it's to lament the lack of sleep you got because you couldn't put it down)." --Book Riot
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