Synopsis
It's arguable that all men are pigs, but in the new Disch novel, they're truly swine. Thomas M. Disch has always delivered novels bigger than any genre could hold, and The Sub: A Study in Witchcraft is no exception. Diana Turney is not your ordinary witch -- she likes to turn men into porkers, and she's haunted by the memory of abuse at the hands of her father. But then, nothing from Disch is ordinary, and this tale of a modern-day Circe is a dark, absorbing, and — yes — outlandish read.
The New York Times Book Review - Scott Sutherland
What begins as a story of domestic upheaval and run-of-the-mill violence soon morphs into something much stranger, eventually encompassing witchcraft, shamanism and incest....The Sub is a peculiar pastiche of supernatural thriller, fairy tale and rural realism, a mix that sometimes results in jarring stylistic collisions.