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This was a truly fantastic volume. Schiff is a great writer -- she has amazing prose skills -- and clearly an excellent researcher as well. This went into amazing detail about the trials, without pushing any one view on why the trials happened. To my mind, that's a huge virtue -- it's such a complex situation that hinging everything on One Particular Thing just doesn't work. It's not just teenage girls or economic worries or Wabanaki attacks or such; it's everything.
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So good! This deep, well researched, and expansive exploration of what happened during the 1692 Salem witch trials was compelling and propulsive. This is the perfect example of why narrative nonfiction is fantastic. Perfect for the season, this 18 hour tome flew by!
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