The Witches Are Coming

The Witches Are Coming

<b>In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series <i>Shrill</i> exposes misogyny in the </b><b>#MeToo era.</b><br><br> <u5:p></u5:p><div><b>THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.</b></div><div><b>WE'RE WITCHES,</b></div><div><b>AND WE'RE HUNTING YOU.</b></div><div><b><br></b></div><div><div>From the moment powerful men started falling to the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: this is feminism gone too far, this is injustice, this is a witch hunt. In <i>The Witches </i><i>Are Coming</i>, firebrand author of the <i>New York </i><i>Times </i>bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu TV series <i>Shrill</i>, Lindy West, turns that refrain on its head. You think this is a witch hunt? Fine. You've got one.</div><div><br></div><div>In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and sometimes tragic, politics of not being a white man in the twenty-first century. She tracks the misogyny and propaganda hidden (or not so hidden) in the media she and her peers devoured growing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grip on American culture and politics-and that delivered us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history.</div><div><br></div><div>West writes, "We were just a hair's breadth from electing America's first female president to succeed America's first black president. We weren't done, but we were doing it. And then, true to form-like the Balrog's whip catching Gandalf by his little gray bootie, like the husband in a Lifetime movie hissing, 'If I can't have you, no one can'-white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con man into the White House."</div><div><br></div><div>We cannot understand how we got here-how the land of the free became Trump's America-without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is witchcraft in it. Lindy West turns on the light.</div></div>