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VenCo: A Novel

Cherie Dimaline

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“Once I opened _VenCo_, I was propelled through an entire night of charmed reading. Cherie Dimaline creates a world utterly fantastical, yet real. _VenCo_ is funny, tense, and cracking with a dark, divine energy.”

—Louise Erdrich, New York Times bestselling author of _The Sentence_

For fans of _The Once and Future Witches_ and _Practical Magic_, comes an incredibly imaginative, highly anticipated new novel featuring witches, magic, and a road trip across America—from Cherie Dimaline, the critically acclaimed author of _Empire of Wild_.

Métis millennial Lucky St. James is barely hanging on when she learns she’ll be evicted from the tiny Toronto apartment she shares with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella. But then one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. She burrows through a wall to find a tarnished silver spoon, humming with otherworldly energy, etched with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM.

Lucky is familiar with the magic of her indigenous ancestors, but she has no idea that the spoon connects her to a teeming network of witches across North America who have anxiously awaited her discovery.

Enter VenCo, a front company fueled by vast resources of dark money (its name is an anagram of “coven.”) VenCo’s witches hide in plain sight wherever women gather: Tupperware parties, Mommy & Me classes, suburban book clubs. Since colonial times, they have awaited the moment the seven spoons will come together and ignite a new era, returning women to their rightful power.

But as reckoning approaches, a very powerful adversary is stalking their every move. He’s Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter as old as witchcraft itself.

To find the last spoon, Lucky and Stella embark on a rollicking and dangerous road trip to the darkly magical city of New Orleans, where the final showdown will determine whether VenCo will usher in a new beginning…or remain underground forever.

A wildly imaginative and compulsively readable fantasia of adventure, history, Americana, feminism, and magic, _VenCo_ is a novel only the supremely gifted Cherie Dimaline could write.

> “Crackling with magic, mystery, adventure, and intrigue, _VenCo_ is a captivating tribute to the bonds of families we are born into and the ones that we create, and a delightful testament to the power of all womankind.”
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> —Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of _The Measure_

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🎃 books mentioned 🎃

Misc.
↳ rouge
↳ she walks in shadows
↳ silver nitrate

Dark Academia
↳ in these hallowed halls: a dark academia anthology
↳ vita nostra
↳ plain bad heroines

“Classic” horror
↳ rebecca
↳ interview with a vampire
↳ dark tales

Real World Horror
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↳ lakewood
↳ her body and other parties
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↳ weight of blood

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↳ house of hunger
↳ the book eaters

Haunted House books
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↳ the hacienda
↳ just like home

Deathly Retellings
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↳ the death i gave him
↳ one for my enemy

Cozy fantasies
↳ legends & lattes
↳ the very secret society of irregular witches
↳ venco
↳ emily wilde's encyclopaedia of faeries

Fantasies
↳ nettle & bone
↳ gods of jade and shadow
↳ juniper & thorn
↳the wolf & the woodsman
↳ the bone orchard
↳ the adventures of amina al-sirafi

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↳ station eleven
↳ glass hotel
↳ sea of tranquility

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🤍 what is your job?
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