
Nonfiction Book Club
Mon, Nov 13
|Birch Tree Bookstore
Join us for a discussion of Grimoire Girl by Hilarie Burton Morgan with your host Candy!


Time & Location
Nov 13, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Birch Tree Bookstore, 11 W Market St, Leesburg, VA 20176, USA
About the event
Since childhood, Hilarie Burton Morgan has felt the call to record, keep and catalogue life in all its strange wonder. It was a whimsical habit, with no clear goal. And then, when she became a mother, the importance of all that collecting snapped into focus.
What inheritance can I give these children that is true and loving and lasting? What will stay with them, long after I am gone?
In an effort to patchwork together an anthology of traditions, curiosity, and magical thinking that she could pass down, Burton realized she was crafting a grimoire.
Perhaps the word brings to mind witches harboring secrets… and that's not far off. A grimoire was the tangible collection of a lifetime of learning. At great risk, a woman recorded what she'd been taught as a child and added to it over the years. In its purest form, a grimoire was a guide to…