In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Neil Gaiman\'s American Gods and Naomi Novik\'s Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.
An enchanted adventure illuminated by Jewish myth and adorned with lyrical prose as tantalizing and sweet as briar berries, Thistlefoot is a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore: a powerful and poignant exploration of healing from multi-generational trauma told by a bold new talent..
Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide--erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future.
As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family\'s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake.
A sinister figure known only as the Longshadow Man has tracked it to American shores, bearing with him violent secrets from the past: fiery memories that have hidden in Isaac and Bellatine\'s blood for generations.
Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas\' ancestral home outside Kyiv--but not alone.
But when they learn that they are to receive an inheritance, the siblings agree to meet--only to discover that their bequest isn\'t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. --Libba Bray, bestselling author of The Diviners The Yaga siblings--Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist--have been estranged since childhood, separated both by resentment and by wide miles of American highway.
Thistlefoot shimmers with magic and mayhem and a thrilling emotional momentum.
A wonderfully imaginative, wholly enchanting novel of witness, survival, memory, and family that reads like a fairy tale godfathered by Neil Gaiman and Tim Burton in a wild America alive with wonders and devils alike.
In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Neil Gaiman\'s American Gods and Naomi Novik\'s Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance
