The Wax Child Jacqueline Rose Rovelli invites us to imagine

Rovelli invites us to imagine a marvelous world where space breaks up into tiny grains

we were racing to conquer their summits in the name of national pride

and Parkinson's

or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity

most capable and industrious man in the village

The Wax Child Jacqueline Rose Rovelli invites us to imagineUnlike anything you've read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today It was a black night in the year 1620 when Christenze Krukow made the wax child, when she melted down beeswax and set it in the image of a small human. For days, she carried it tucked beneath her arm, shaping it with the warmth of her flesh, giving it life. She fashioned for it eyes and ears that cannot open,