Breaking the Curse: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and Italian Witchcraft

This memoir of holding trauma and a queer identity, dives into other themes of spirituality, ancestral connection, transformation, recovery, and ore. This book follows the author’s own Alex DiFrancesco’s coming of age and finding identity from Ohio to Brooklyn, and Philly as they navigate worlds of learning about ways to be spiritual and contending with their addictions and mental health. Sprinkled in is a good deal of magic, intersecting into all the themes touched upon in this book. It goes through how the author’s use of Italian folk magic and witchcraft was a vehicle to confronting their issues, trauma, and finding empowerment once more.