02395cam a2200505 i 4500 804649946 TxAuBib 20230519120000.0 210104s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020058349 9780374280468 hardcover 0374280460 hardcover 9781250849311 PB 1250849314 PB 40030621647 (OCoLC)1182592796 TxAuBib rda Galchen, Rivka,. Everyone knows your mother is a witch [(PB)] / Rivka Galchen. First edition. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021. ©2021. 275 pages ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. "Drawing on real historical documents but infused with the intensity of imagination, sly humor, and intellectual fire for which award-winning author Rivka Galchen's writing is known, Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch is a tale for our time--the story of how a community becomes implicated in collective aggression and hysterical fear"-- Provided by publisher. 1618, Württemberg, a German duchy. Plague is spreading. The Thirty Years' War has begun. Fear and suspicion are in the air throughout the Holy Roman Empire. In the small town of Leonberg, Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow known for her herbal remedies, is accused of being a witch by Ursula Reinbold, who accuses Katharina of offering her a bitter, witchy drink that has made her ill. Her son Johannes, the Imperial Mathematician and renowned author of the laws of planetary motion, must turn his attention from the music of the spheres to the job of defending his mother. -- adapted from jacket. 20230519. Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630 Fiction. Plague Fiction. Widows Fiction. Plague. Widows. Witches. Family members. Jealousy. Württemberg (Germany) Fiction. Historical fiction. Historical fiction. War fiction. War fiction. Witch fiction.