Narratively, the book is about Tituba's role in the Salem witchcraft trials. However, the book goes further than that. As Tituba lives through these terrible events, she explores a variety of philosophical problems: gender roles, motherhood, feminism, married life, and the similarities between the experiences of blacks and Jews. The book's most profound insights are about the interaction between sexism and racism. The book is fiction. Little is known about the historical Tituba, beyond the bare facts that she was a confessed witch and was from Barbados. This review is from http://www.papaya-palace.com

I thought this book was similar to The Handmaid's Tale, in that it tells a compelling story, but goes further by forcing the reader to reflect on what this story implies about his or her own society. I recommend it highly.