Scapegracers

A teenage lesbian witch, Sideways Pike, finds her coven among the popular girls at her school. Together, they form a powerful and supportive coven, balancing human interaction with supernatural peril. The Scapegracers explores growing up and complex female friendship with the rage of a teenage girl, subverting the trope of competitive mean girls.

Format: Hardback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 15 September 2020
Publisher: Erewhon Books

Skulking near the bottom of West High's social pyramid, Sideways Pike lurks under the bleachers, doing magic tricks for Coke bottles. As a witch, lesbian, and lifelong outsider, she's had a hard time making friends. But when the three most popular girls pay her $40 to cast a spell at their Halloween party, Sideways gets swept into a new clique. The unholy trinity are dangerous angels, sugar-coated rattlesnakes, and now-unbelievably-Sideways' best friends. Together, the four bond to form a ferocious and powerful coven. They plan parties, cast curses on dudebros, try to find Sideways a girlfriend, and elude the fundamentalist witch hunters hellbent on stealing their magic. But for Sideways, the hardest part is the whole having friends thing. Who knew that balancing human interaction with supernatural peril could be so complicated? Rich with the urgency of feral youth, The Scapegracers explores growing up and complex female friendship with all the rage of a teenage girl. It subverts the trope of competitive mean girls and instead portrays a mercilessly supportive clique of diverse and vivid characters. It is an atmospheric, voice-driven novel of the occult, and the first of a three-book series.

Weight: 492g
Dimension: 151 x 216 x 37 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781645660002