I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem

“Some readers—especially New Englanders—will know Tituba from The Crucible. Tituba was a Bajan figure, an enslaved woman who appears in dotted lines in the archive of the Salem witch trials, as a vector of unreason or irrationalism, of Voodoo practices or alternative medicine. This is a beautiful historical novel that takes up archival gaps, the spaces between what we can and can’t know about historical figures, particularly those that weren’t from white wealthy families. She does a kind of imaginative reanimation of the figure of Tituba and explores deeply the power that this figure held.” Read more...

The Best Postcolonial Literature

Anjuli Fatima Raza Kolb, Literary Scholar