Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


“It isn’t just taking a life that destroys a people. It’s taking their history.”

Thistlefoot: A Novel by GennaRose Nethercott

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Cbr15bingo In the wild (shifters) features characters that are shape shifters Thistlefoot is a story of generational trauma that is part fairy tale and part history. The fairy tale part borrows from the Russian tales of the witch Baba Yaga. The history is that of the Jewish people, specifically the pogroms that occurred in Eastern Europe in the first half of the 20th century. This is a novel about the violence that destroyed Jewish communities, the fear that feeds that violence, and the vital importance […]

“What is memory if not a ghost?”

Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott

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Today is Holocaust Remembrance Day – how fitting, then, to review this book – an otherworldly almost fable, told in part by a haunted house on legs. This is not a world wholly immersed in fantasy; instead this is a work of magical realism, the kind where events both glorious but also, and maybe mostly, tragic become solid and explicit in unexpected ways. The world is mostly familiar to us – but also, in this world, houses that experience trauma might grow wings or legs. […]



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