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Thistlefoot

A Novel

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Thistlefoot

Von: GennaRose Nethercott
Gesprochen von: January LaVoy
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 In the tradition of modern fairy tales like Naomi Novik's Spinning Silver comes an immersive fantasy saga, a debut novel about estranged siblings who are reunited after receiving a mysterious inheritance.

“A wonderfully imaginative, wholly enchanting novel of witness, survival, memory, and family that reads like a fairy tale godfathered by Tim Burton in a wild America alive with wonders and devils alike. Thistlefoot shimmers with magic and mayhem and a thrilling emotional momentum.” —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. 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.

Thistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas’ ancestral home outside Kyiv—but not alone. 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. 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. 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.

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. Fantasy Märchen Paranormal & Urban Fantasy Zeitgenössische Fantasy
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The start of the book is something I still think about. There was this reference about thistle that just hit really close, and the whole book was an enchanting and beautiful old story that felt like something my Grandma would tell me. The speaker also amazingly portrayed the different characters perfectly. I felt like a listened to various different people when listening to January LaVoy. I will certainly dig more into both the author's and the speaker's book. This is exactly the kind of book I love, a modernization of old folklore, but in a very wonderful way that doesn't feel made up at all but lets you believe for a little while that it could actually be true. I can only recommend this book!

Bets book I read in a long time!

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"Well Hello my friends, would you like to hear a story?" The Drowning Fool told his jokes in the puppet show of the Yaga family for as long as Isaac and Bellatrice can remember. But he's only a puppet, held by a puppeteer and the stories are only stories.
But every story has an origin. And if you invoke the memory you raise the ghost. A house on chicken legs, which can walk and listens to you if you happen to speak jiddisch? This clearly can't be true. But believe me when I say it is the easiest of many more mysterious things to belive in this story.
Because the Yaga siblings are special themselves. Isaac being such an gifted actor he can shapeshift. And Bellatrice who calls her gift a curse and never again wants to use it.

It's important for this story that the Yaga siblings have Jewish ancestors, who immigrated to America from Russia. The story has a lot of lovely Russian endearings and tells about Jewish suffering and generational trauma. I think it's very important to remember this history and very much recommend this book. It's not a history lesson, but a work of art, a tale to remind us to do better.
And how can something be more relevant facing the wars, the genocides that we are happening now?

Loved the characters and the story!

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lovely storry and well told an performed. the end however was a little weak compared to the rest. still good listen!

starts out very strong

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