We Were Witches: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “A rewriting of every helpless princess fairy tale and a reclamation of every Scarlet Letter…We Were Witches is an absolute must-read.”

  — Ms. magazine

• “Ariel…calculates and acts impulsively and makes strange and strong choices. And we are right there with her.”

  — Santa Fe Reporter

• “Gore tells her story with such verve and wit I missed my train stop reading it.”

  — Lambda Literary Review

• “Everything you didn’t know you were allowed to want in a narrative.”

  — Audiostraddle

• “Gore’s magic-infused narrative…is a moving account of a young writer and mother striving to claim her own agency and find her voice.”

  — Publishers Weekly

• “This book mimics the messy, discursive texture of memory—of life…Inventive and affecting.”

  — Kirkus Reviews

• “A scathing indictment of a system that works against people who are poor and female as well as a piercing and wise look at one woman’s struggle to overcome it.”

  — Booklist

• “A triumphant body story. A singularly spectacular siren song.”

  — Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Small Backs of Children

• “We Were Witches seizes the shame and hurt internalized by young women and turns it into magic art and poetry. Ariel Gore’s writing is a diamond pentacle carved into a living heart, transforming singular experience into universal knowledge.”

  — Susie Bright, author of Big Sex Little Death

• “Drawing from myth, fairy tale, the wisdom of third wave literary icons, and the singular experiences of a queer single mama artist trying to survive the nineties, We Were Witches is its own genre, in its own canon. It moves with punk-rock grace and confidence, and I totally loved it.”

  — Kate Schatz, author of Rad American Women A-Z

• “Both magical and punk rock—the way it takes traditional values and traditional story structure to task, the way Gore’s protagonist, Ariel, uses witchy intelligence to resist a system totally against her.”

  — Michelle Cruz Gonzales, author of The Spitboy Rule