A Hard Witching

Edna, a recent widow, has been seeing her husband in her dreams, and she wonders what he might want. Then her well goes dry, and she’s forced to reckon with a man named Monson who offers to witch it for her. But things always happen in threes, leaving Edna in tears over ghosts, bad luck, and her husband’s legacy.

Jacqueline Baker writes with confidence and unvarnished honesty, and she has the rare ability to make the familiar brilliant and finely understood. Hers are universal the tensions of family life; relationships defined by what isn’t said, rather than what is; and our connection to a past that may be real or imagined.