"From indie musician Orenda Fink, a memoir of a tumultuous childhood growing up with a mother who may have borderline personality disorder. Orenda Fink was raised by a darkly charismatic mother who insisted that they were both MAGIC. In The Witch's Daughter, Orenda chronicles her years spent navigating this ominous power, alongside her mother's substance abuse and hyper-controlling, often destructive, grip on the family, later suspected to be a subtype of borderline personality disorder classified as "The Witch." Fink's searing prose brings the reader through these tumultuous highs and lows of childhood, through her adulthood and early days as a musician, and into a healed version of herself who is able to walk through the world without being crushed under the baggage of her childhood"-- Provided by publisher.

Part I: The despair. The witch -- Little magic -- Goin' up the country -- The firstborn -- Until the well runs dry -- Part II: The denial. Thaumaturgy -- The blue devils -- I put a spell on you -- God's work -- Part III: Purgatory. Caged animal -- Lonely ghosts -- Dead to me -- The haunting things -- A goddamn exorcism -- The devil herself -- Part IV: The acceptance. Deja vu -- The witch's other daughter -- The known and the unknown -- Just plain evil -- It's not a demon, it's part of you -- The worst is over -- Last eden -- Acknowledgments -- Index.