It’s a continuing lesson throughout our lives.” “I’m not saying things can’t change, but basically you have to deal with what you’re given. “That’s what it is for this family, because they’re not completely mortal,” Hoffman said from her Boston home, taking a break for a chat. When she is betrayed by the man she loves, she lays down a curse “on any man who ever loves an Owens woman,” bringing tragedy and grief to her descendants. Along the way, she is schooled in the Unnamed Arts and becomes a healer – though many call her a witch. We follow Maria’s life in the 1600s from England to Curacao and on to New York City and Salem, Mass. 6) is the origin story of Maria Owens, the ancestor of the witchy Owens women who populate “Magic Lessons” and “Practical Magic.” “Magic Lessons” (Simon & Schuster, $27, Oct. There’s an abundance of it in her new “Magic Lessons,” the prequel to 1995’s “Practical Magic” and 2017’s “Rules of Magic.” Given her practical nature, it seems ironic that novelist Alice Hoffman sprinkles magical realism through most of her novels.
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