By dismantling traditional ideas of chronology and plot, White Magic challenges us to rethink narrative, place, meaning, and inheritance. Washuta divides the book into three acts, each given its own tarot reading, each delving into a different angle of the relationship -before, during, and after. Part exploration of inherited trauma, part feat of universal understanding, White Magic follows Washuta through the life and end of an important romantic relationship, which she uses to give structure to her odyssey. Something I found myself remembering in reading Elissa Washuta’s White Magic. “If you want to spot the trick in a magic trick, read the movements and do not follow the magician’s gaze,” my father used to remind me as he stealthily pulled a quarter out of my young ear. “A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.” – Carl Sagan
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