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Charlie Jane Anders presents 'Lessons in Magic and Disaster'

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Mon, 25 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm

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Mon, 25 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm (GMT-07:00)

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17171 Bothell Way Northeast, Lake Forest Park, United States

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Charlie Jane Anders presents 'Lessons in Magic and Disaster'
A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic in this resonant novel about family, identity, and the power of love.

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Third Place Books welcomes author Charlie Jane Anders to our Lake Forest Park store to celebrate the launch of her new book, — a poignant, magical story about a grad student with unusual powers unraveling the secrets of her mom's difficult past before it destroys them both.

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About Lessons in Magic and Disaster. . .

In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the Sky comes a novel full of love, disaster, and magic.

A young witch teaches her mother how to do magic--with very unexpected results--in this relatable, resonant novel about family, identity, and the power of love.

Jamie is basically your average New England academic in-training--she has a strong queer relationship, an esoteric dissertation proposal, and inherited generational trauma. But she has one extraordinary secret: she's also a powerful witch.

Serena, Jamie's mother, has been hiding from the world in an old one-room schoolhouse for several years, grieving the death of her wife and the simultaneous explosion in her professional life. All she has left are memories.

Jamie’s busy digging into a three-hundred-year-old magical book, but she still finds time to teach Serena to cast spells and help her come out of her shell. But Jamie doesn't know the whole story of what happened to her mom years ago, and those secrets are leading Serena down a destructive path.

Now it's up to this grad student and literature nerd to understand the secrets behind this mysterious novel from 1749, unearth a long-buried scandal hinted therein, and learn the true nature of magic, before her mother ruins both of their lives.


Charlie Jane Anders is the author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster, coming August 2025 from Tor Books. Her other novels include All the Birds in the Sky, The City in the Middle of the Night and the young-adult Unstoppable trilogy. She's also the author of the short story collection Even Greater Mistakes, and Never Say You Can't Survive (August 2021), a book about how to use creative writing to get through hard times. She's won the Hugo, Nebula, Sturgeon, Lambda Literary, Crawford and Locus Awards. She co-created Escapade, a transgender superhero, for Marvel Comics and wrote her into the long-running New Mutants comic. And she's currently the science fiction and fantasy book reviewer for the Washington Post. With Annalee Newitz, she co-hosts the podcast Our Opinions Are Correct.



About Third Place Books

Founded in 1998 in Lake Forest Park, Washington, Third Place Books is dedicated to the creation of a community around books and the ideas inside them. With locations in Lake Forest Park and Seattle's Ravenna and Seward Park neighborhoods, Third Place Books is proud to serve the entire Seattle metro area. Learn more about their event series at thirdplacebooks.com/events


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Charlie Jane Anders presents 'Lessons in Magic and Disaster', 25 August | Event in Lake Forest Park | AllEvents
Charlie Jane Anders presents 'Lessons in Magic and Disaster'
Mon, 25 Aug, 2025 at 07:00 pm
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