How to Start a Coven (Deirdre Danklin)

 Perceptive, moving and very funny, How to Start a Coven crosses time spans and lives: a pair of Galapagos tortoises living in peace centuries ago morph into a married couple trying to find the best toilet seat in Home Depot. A contemporary and striking bildungsroman for our times, Danklin’s flash fiction chapbook combines the earnest and the surreal in the best ways to address the urgent question of how we should live now. Danklin’s answer is to re-imagine life with creativity and humor: and, maybe, start a coven with your friends.

—Honni van Riskswikj