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THE WITCH’S DAUGHTER

BY ORENDA FINK

“Orenda Fink’s memoir is un-put-downable—it is a lyrical, compassionate, and complicated telling of the impacts of mental health and antagonism on multiple generations of a family. She brings a realistic and compelling lens to the confusing terrain of guilt, duty, grief, attachment, shame, and love that family members must navigate in these circumstances. It will validate the experience of so many survivors of these family systems.”

— Dr. Ramani Durvasula, New York Times Bestselling Author of It’s Not You: Identifying and Healing from Narcissistic People, clinical psychologist, and professor emerita of psychology, California State University, Los Angeles

“ This is a master text on surviving trauma... I couldn’t put it down.”

— Phoebe Bridgers

The Witch’s Daughter: MY MOTHER, HER MAGIC, AND THE MADNESS THAT BOUND Us

From her perch on a kitchen stool each night, Orenda Fink’s darkly charismatic mother spins family lore and tells tales of the supernatural powers she wields, insisting that both she and Orenda are magic.

When her mother’s substance abuse and controlling behavior crescendo, Orenda escapes to pursue a music career in Birmingham, Alabama, and then storied Athens, Georgia, forming bands Little Red Rocket and Azure Ray. She orbits the family home, always drawn back by her mother’s dark powers and her own need to solve the mystery of whether that claim of magic—or any magic—is real, or merely an expression of mental illness. Orenda’s journey takes her from churches in the American South—eager to exercise the demons out of her—to even more mysterious practitioners of country magic in the Southeast and beyond. Finally seeking refuge in California’s high desert, Orenda works to knit together her divided worlds with the help of a Jungian psychotherapist. She is stunned to learn that her mother fits many of the criteria associated with borderline personality disorder, including a sub-type identified by famed thought leader Christine Ann Lawson, known as “The Witch” — an aggressive, dominating figure who operates by fear-driven control, sometimes claiming to wield magic.

Told in spellbinding prose, this memoir of music, self-discovery, and compassion is for anyone who has had to conjure a safe place to call home.

  • “Orenda Fink's captivating memoir cascades with life and loss. Part detailed description of a gnarled family tree, part rock n' roll tell-all, part exorcism of the many demons that her and us can recognize in ourselves but do not understand. I have been a longtime admirer of her art and have been fortunate enough to call her a friend for many years. Still I had not known much of what is contained in this book. We have all touched some kind of madness. We have all cast our own sorry, desperate type of spells. This book is a testament to those things which make us scared and brave and magically human all at once.”

    — Conor Oberst

  • “A memoir of great generosity—to herself, to her mother, to all mothers, to her friends and fans, to everyone who reads it.  You don’t have to know Orenda or her music in order to recognize a version of your own life inside of her own.  Plus all the juicy music-scene gossip.  I couldn’t put it down.”


    —Alexander Payne

  • Description goes here“’The past is never dead and not even past,’ the great Southern novelist William Faulkner wrote. In her evocative, elegant memoir, the great Southern songwriter and performer Orenda Fink is like a descendant of one of his characters transported to our time, surviving terrible circumstances and finally thriving.”


    — Anne Kreamer, author of Going Gray

  • “Every paragraph of The Witch’s Daughter shimmers with a hauntingly precise perspective, and the spirit of the book is a delight, a wonder, even as it addresses turmoil, sadness, heartbreak. This is a riveting book about defiance. As Orenda seeks explanation for her mother's twisted magic and vindictive spells, she finds wisdom and serenity and music. The minute I finished the book, I wanted to start right over at the beginning.”


    — Timothy Schaffert, author of The Perfume Thief, The Titanic Survivors Book Club

Dream Interpretation & Shadow Work

Do you want to take control of your life? Do you want to consciously create your future? The key to both lies in understanding yourself on a deeper level.

As a certified Jungian Depth Coach, my process sheds light on unconscious patterns, fears and desires that control your life without your awareness. By making the unconscious conscious, you can free yourself from past conditioning and become the creator of your future. This process is what Jung called Individuation, a movement away from the ego and to the limitless potential of the true Self. 

MUSIC

“maudlin but beautiful, expertly crafted pop songs” – Pitchfork

“what does the queen of heartbreak listen to when she’s heartbroken? Taylor Swift’S Break-up Playlist [FT Azure Ray]” – TIME

“Orenda Fink crafts a collection of distinctly futuristic love songs.” – NPR

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