Diane Huffman: 2 books

In a small town outside Madison, Wisconsin we meet Emma Waxler, a typical teenage girl who just wants to go to Prom. Except Wax isn’t very typical after all. Her dad’s day job involves magic, there’s a thaumaturgic vortex in her back yard, and Wax is magic… Sometimes.

During Beth Stedmans formative years in the late 1940s and early 1950s, she wonders if the families depicted on the weekly television showsLeave It to Beaver, Father Knows Best, The Donna Reed Showexisted in real life. The fathers in the sitcoms had good-paying jobs. The mothers stayed home and vacuumed...