Author Description

"A layered Southern fantasy, WHAT MAGICK MAY NOT ALTER, defines itself as fantasy, but real-world issues like the prevalence of the KKK, sexual assault, manslaughter, alcoholism, and grey areas of family dynamics and growing up move the plot into emotionally treacherous and painfully real places. Twin sisters Lulah and Vi anchor this story of a magically gifted family told through poetry. Set in the early nineteen-hundreds Louisiana, the choice to tell this story in verse sets it apart from other Southern fantasies, making it feel like a spell book or a manifesto at times. Emotion sings through it clear and strong, as in this pivotal passage when Talulah visits Vidalia: She smiles as she slips the doll in a pocket and begins a song in a language that hovers somewhere between the voices of flowers and the timbre of wind. Lulah joins in then, in made-up words of her own"--