Susannah Morrow is a woman recently come to Salem, arriving the night her sister dies in childbed. She stays then, to help her brother-in-law raise his three girls. It's not far after that the young girls of Salem Village start having fits. Seeing ghosts, demons & devils. The story of what really happened in that village will never be quite clear, although with the apology of Annie Putnam Jr. many years later, it not hard to imagine what may have really happened. But by then...so many people died. I've always been facinated by the trials in Salem. The village is so strict, so staunchly Puritan that the people cannot see anything clearly. This specific story of Susannah Morrow is fictional. But the people, with the exception of the Fowler family are real. People that fought and held tightly to their beliefs.

I mentioned that I think it has a similarity to The Handmaid's Tale. Where Atwood's story is frightening because it's one of many possible futures for our own world now, Susannah Morrow is frightening because it's history. It's real history of our nation. And it's terrifying to think of what can happen when people let their beliefs get the better of them. When you look for demons everywhere, you can't be suprised when you find them.
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