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Author Yip, Mingmei, author.

Title The witch's market / Mingmei Yip.

Publication Info. New York : Kensington Books, [2015]
©2015

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Location Call No. Status
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Adult Fiction  F YIP MINGMEI    Check Shelf
Description 304 pages ; 21 cm
Note Includes reading group guide.
Summary "Chinese-American assistant professor Eileen Chen specializes in folk religion at her San Francisco college. Though her grandmother made her living as a shamaness, Eileen publicly dismisses witchcraft as mere superstition. Yet privately, the subject intrigues her. When a research project takes her to the Canary Islands--long rumored to be home to real witches--Eileen is struck by the lush beauty of Tenerife and its blend of Spanish and Moroccan culture. A stranger invites her to a local market where women sell amulets, charms, and love spells. Gradually Eileen immerses herself in her exotic surroundings, finding romance with a handsome young furniture maker. But as she learns more about the lives of these self-proclaimed witches, Eileen must choose how much trust to place in this new and seductive world, where love, greed, and vengeance can be as powerful, or as destructive, as any magic."--Page 2 of cover.
Subject Witches -- Fiction.
Chinese American women -- Fiction.
Tenerife (Canary Islands) -- Fiction.
Genre/Form Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
Love stories.
Paranormal fiction.
ISBN 9781617733239 (paperback)
1617733237 (paperback)
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