num_pages: 448
description: In the tradition of modern fairytales like American Gods and Spinning Silver comes a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore--a debut novel about the ancestral hauntings that stalk us and the uncanny power of story.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 a mysterious inheritance the siblings are reunited--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 in Russia--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 an immersive modern fantasy saga by a bold new talent.
language: English
title: Thistlefoot
publisher: Anchor