Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World Lynsey Addario From the American Revolution itself

From the American Revolution itself to the Civil Rights Movement to nuclear disarmament protests and the women's liberation movement

And even if I somehow make it through the endless waves of maleficaria that it keeps throwing at me in between grueling homework assignments

told from the perspective of a repentant former rascal

to attend the funeral for her abuela whom she hasn't seen since childhood

author of All My Mother's Lovers

Witch of Lime Street: Séance, Seduction, and Houdini in the Spirit World Lynsey Addario From the American Revolution itselfHistory comes alive in this textured account of the rivalry between Harry Houdini and the so called Witch of Lime Street, whose iconic lives intersected at a time when science was on the verge of embracing the paranormal. The 1920s are famous as the golden age of jazz and glamour, but it was also an era of fevered yearning for communion with the spirit world, after the loss of tens of millions in the First World War and the Spanish flu epidemic. A