I love reading anything about the Salem witch trials. While at Barnes & Noble, I came across a book on the discount fiction table and was instantly in love. If you liked The Historian and read paranormal fiction, this would be a great little novel to read.
It's about Connie Goodwin, a graduate student who just passed her doctoral exams in the history department at Harvard. She has a summer before embarking on her dissertation, and rather than doing research like she planned, she ends up having to take charge of repairing and selling her grandmother's long abandoned house near Salem.
She happens upon a key in an old 17th century family bible in one of the rooms that has a small slip of paper in the hollow that reads: Deliverance Dane. Connie sets out to find out who or what this paper means and in the process learns about her family's connection to the Salem witch trials. What follows is part intellectual quest, part family history, part magical experience.
It was nice to read a stand-alone book. It was nice to read a historical novel by someone well versed in the history. Kathleen Howe is herself a descendant of two of the Salem witches and holds a doctorate in American and New England studies.
And wonder of wonders, not one vampire in the whole novel.
In other news, today was my first day at work. Not much happened, I'm exhausted, but employed, so yay! I don't have new employee orientation until tomorrow, but I'm pretty sure it's exactly like working in every other office in America. And maybe Canada.
In the words of some of my new coworkers, see youse tomorrah!
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