2018: Margaret Killjoy: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Tom Doherty Associates

2018: Margaret Killjoy: The Barrow Will Send What it May, Tom Doherty Associates [0]




A follow up to 2017’s The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (one of my favorite book titles) in the Danielle Cain series. This is, I believe, book 2 in that series.


Like the previous book this is another mix of anarchism and magic. While the first book was about a demon that ensured that oppression and exploitation did not take hold in an anarchist community in Iowa, this book is about a small town in Montana with an anarchist-run public library with a large occult collection and a man in town who unleashed a wave of death by using one of the books to return his dead wife to life.


The resurrection spell requires the death of one individual for each resurrectee - a metaphor for capitalist exploitation and the destructive side of desire.