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This week, Patrick and Tracy welcome GennaRose Nethercott, author of Thistlefoot.
\nAbout Thistlefoot: The Yaga siblings\u2014Bellatine, a young woodworker, and Isaac, a wayfaring street performer and con artist\u2014have 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\u2014only to discover that their bequest isn\u2019t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs.
\nThistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas\u2019 ancestral home outside Kyiv\u2014but 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\u2019s blood for generations. As the Yaga siblings embark with Thistlefoot on a final cross-country tour of their family\u2019s traveling theater show, the Longshadow Man follows in relentless pursuit, seeding destruction in his wake. Ultimately, time, magic, and legacy must collide\u2014erupting in a powerful conflagration to determine who gets to remember the past and craft a new future.
\nAbout GennaRose Nethercott: GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT is the author of the novel THISTLEFOOT (Knopf Anchor/PRH 2022) and The Lumberjack\u2019s Dove (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2018), selected by Louise Gl\xfcck as a winner of the National Poetry Series. Her other recent projects include the narrative song collection Modern Ballads, and Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog: A Story in Cootie Catchers (Ninepin Press 2019). A Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow, her work has appeared in BOMB Magazine, The Massachusetts Review, The American Scholar, PANK, and elsewhere, and she has been a writer-in-residence at the Vermont Studio Center, Art Farm Nebraska, and the Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris.
\nNethercott tours nationally and internationally performing from her works (often with a hand-cranked shadow show in tow) and composing poems-to-order for strangers on a 1952 Hermes Rocket typewriter. She is the founder of the Traveling Poetry Emporium, a team of poets-for-hire, and is an Associate Producer at Grim and Mild, where she conducts supernatural and historical research for the podcast Lore. She lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery.
\nThis week\u2019s picks:
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\n* GennaRose #1: Over the Garden Wall
\n* GennaRose #2: Alex the Cider Donut Reviewer
\n* Tracy: Ask Baba Yaga: Otherworldly Advice for Everyday Troubles by Taisia Kitaiskaia
\n* Patrick: The Imperfects (Netflix)
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\nLinks:
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\n* GennaRose Nethercott on Twitter
\n* Tracy Townsend on Twitter
\n* Patrick Hester on Twitter
\n* The Functional Nerds Patreon Page
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