Description
When estranged siblings Bellatine and Isaac Yaga inherit a sentient house that walks on chicken legs, they are drawn together on an extraordinary journey across America. With the fantastical Thistlefoot as both vehicle and stage, they revive their family’s traveling theater while a sinister pursuer closes in, carrying the buried violence and secrets of their Eastern European ancestry. Blending Jewish myth, Ukrainian folklore, dark whimsy, and road-trip adventure, the novel explores memory, displacement, family, and the long shadow of generational trauma. Lyrical and inventive, it is an emotionally resonant fairy tale about confronting the past and imagining a future beyond it.
Available Editions
hardcover
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Jan 1, 2022
304 pages
ISBN: 9780593468838
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Details
First Published
2022
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott.