Very Good Road
Brooms
By Jasmine Walls & Teo DuVall
2 Feb, 2024
Doing the WFC's Homework
Jasmine Walls and Teo DuVall’s1 2023 Brooms is a historical fantasy graphic novel.
Magic in 1930s Mississippi is closely regulated, particularly the magic used by persons of colour. Government agents2 scour the state, looking for children with magical knacks. Children unlucky enough to be caught are sent off to academies and residential schools to learn proper, Latin-based, magic. Recalcitrant students who cling to unauthorized magical schools are punished. Some are stripped of their magic entirely.
Luella has had her magic sealed. She is determined to save her cousins Emma and Mattie from the same fate. Emma and Mattie’s parents are just as determined to save their kids. There is, of course, a catch, which boils down to money.