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VenCo

A Novel

by Cherie Dimaline

Narrator Michelle St. John

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Length 11 hours 10 minutes

Language English

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Bookseller recommendation

“Lucky St James may be new to this witch thing, but she suffers no fools even to the ancient magic working against her. This wild ride from cold Canada to luscious Louisiana follows Lucky, her uber cool Grandma Stella, And the women of Venco who are bound to stick together. Definitely a driveway moments book! ”
— Angie • The Country Bookshop

Bookseller recommendation

“Rage, love, and hope permeate every page of Dimaline’s newest epic novel. Witches rise from the ashes, forming covens to save the world from the patriarchal capitalist practices that left it in flames. A North American coven is gathering, picked by spoons blessed by an ancestor and maybe fate itself. VenCo is an excellent story with beautifully flawed characters and writing that draws readers in and will not let them go. This urban fantasy, taking place in cities and roadside motels, masterfully weaves old problems and new into a thrilling tapestry with humorous highlights and intriguing shadows. VenCo is perfect for lovers of a bit of practical magic, dark fantasy, and a penchant for road trips.”
— Izzy • Off the Beaten Path

Bookseller recommendation

“I loved this feminist fantasy that reads like Harry Potter for adults. Lucky is a young Metis woman who has not gotten much of a break. She lives in Toronto with delightful but challenging grandmother; pines for a man who doesn't notice her; and hates her dead end job. But, then, she finds a spoon—and everything changes, and she's on a quest to discover the coven of witches in Salem, the seventh spoon, and her true identity. ”
— Julie Buckles • Honest Dog Books

Bookseller recommendation

“VenCo, by indigenous author Cherie Dimaline, is a feminist fantasy filled with badass, strong women, goddess magic, and a story that grabs your attention and doesn’t let go. When Lucky St. James, a Metis millennial living with her willful, stubborn grandmother suffering from the early stages of dementia finds an odd spoon engraved with a witch and the word 'Salem', she is propelled into a magical world she never knew existed. Read by Canadian voice actress Michelle St. John, the voice behind Dimaline’s blockbuster YA novels Empire of the Wild, Marrow Thieves, and Hunting By Stars, this is a story you will want to listen to again and again. ”
— Claire • Honest Dog Books

Summary

""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.”— Nikki Erlick, New York Times bestselling author of The Measure

Fiction Fantasy