In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the writer from the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu series Shrill exposes misogyny in the #MeToo era. THIS IS A WITCH HUNT.WE’RE WITCHES,AND WE’RE HUNTING YOU.

From the moment powerful guys started falling towards the #MeToo movement, the lamentations began: that is feminism gone too much, this is injustice, that is a witch hunt. In The Witches Are Arriving, firebrand writer of the New York Moments bestselling memoir and now critically acclaimed Hulu Television series about The Witches Are Coming Shrill, Lindy Western world, transforms that refrain on its head. You think that is a witch hunt? Great. You have one.

In a laugh-out-loud, incisive cultural critique, West extolls the world-changing magic of truth, urging readers to reckon with dark lies in the heart of the American mythos, and unpacking the complicated, and occasionally tragic, politics of not being truly a white man in the twenty-first century. She monitors the misogyny and propaganda concealed (or not concealed) in the media she and her peers devoured developing up, a buffet of distortions, delusions, prejudice, and outright bullsh*t that has allowed white male mediocrity to maintain a death grasp on American lifestyle and politics-and that shipped us to this precarious, disorienting moment in history.

Western writes, ‘We were only a hair’s breadth from electing America’s 1st female president to succeed America’s 1st black chief executive. We weren’t done, but we had been doing it. And, true to form-like the Balrog’s whip getting Gandalf by his small gray bootie, like the spouse in an eternity film hissing, ‘If I cannot have you, no-one can’-white American voters shoved an incompetent, racist con guy into the White House.’

We cannot understand how we got here-how the property of the free became Trump’s America-without examining the chasm between who we are and who we think we are, without fact-checking the tales we show ourselves about ourselves and each other. The truth can transform us; there is certainly witchcraft in it. Lindy Western world becomes on the light.