5/26/2023 0 Comments Book the rules of magicLegend has it that their ancestor, Maria Owens, abandoned by her lover and accused of witchcraft during the Salem trials, cursed her bloodline to prevent her daughters suffering as she did. The Owens women have always had grey eyes, a spark of magic, and bad luck in love. I was over the moon, then, to learn that The Rules of Magic is a prequel starring the aunts and their brother Vincent, set mostly during their youth in New York City during the 1960s. I wanted to be them, and I wanted their stories. I loved their comfort with each other, their confidence with magic, their authority, their power. The book focuses on Sally and Gillian as adult sisters, and on Antonia and Kylie, Sally's teenage daughters – but I always loved best the elderly aunts, Francis and Jet. The film gave me women loving and fighting with and for each other, in a house and garden (and kitchen) to spend the rest of my life lusting after the book gave me poetry, the names of flowers, and generations of Owens sisters. I loved both, talked passionately about how very different they were from each other, how glad I was that I'd seen the film first so as to appreciate it on its own terms. I saw Practical Magic the film when I was 14, a little while before I read Practical Magic the book. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Rules of Magic Author Alice Hoffman
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