Hello everyone! Happy October from all of us here at Feminist Book Club. It is the season of all things Halloween, Samhain, All Hallow's Eve, and of course, the Season of the Witch, which just so happens to be our theme for the month! Without further ado, the October Book of the Month is...

VenCo by Cherie Dimaline!

Lucky St. James, a Métis millennial living with her cantankerous but loving grandmother Stella, is barely hanging on when she discovers she will be evicted from their tiny Toronto apartment. Then, one night, something strange and irresistible calls out to Lucky. Burrowing through a wall, she finds a silver spoon etched with a crooked-nosed witch and the word SALEM, humming with otherworldly energy.

Hundreds of miles away in Salem, Myrna Good has been looking for Lucky. Myrna works for VenCo, a front company fueled by vast resources of dark money.

Lucky is familiar with the magic of her indigenous ancestors, but she has no idea that the spoon links her to VenCo’s network of witches throughout North America. Generations of witches have been waiting for centuries for the seven spoons to come together, igniting a new era, and restoring women to their rightful power.

But as reckoning approaches, a very powerful adversary is stalking their every move. He’s Jay Christos, a roguish and deadly witch-hunter as old as witchcraft itself.

To find the last spoon, Lucky and Stella embark on a rollicking and dangerous road trip to the darkly magical city of New Orleans, where the final showdown will determine whether VenCo will usher in a new beginning…or remain underground forever.

We highly recommend borrowing a copy of VenCo from your library, but if you would prefer to own a copy, you can buy one here from Bookshop.org or an audiobook copy from Libro.fm, both of which you can set up to support Feminist Book Club! We look forward to reading with you and will announce our discussion times shortly!