Posted on Oct 3, 2022
In 'Thistlefoot,' GennaRose Nethercott explores painful history through folklore
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In her debut book Thistlefoot, author GennaRose Nethercott reimagines the centuries-old character Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in a shtetl in 1919 Russia, in a time of civil war and pogroms.
In her debut book Thistlefoot, author GennaRose Nethercott reimagines the centuries-old character Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in a shtetl in 1919 Russia, in a time of civil war and pogroms.
In 'Thistlefoot,' GennaRose Nethercott explores painful history through folklore
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..."NETHERCOTT: I'm going to let the house tell the next part of this story.
YU: Her puppet theater is a beautiful white box with blue window shutters cut into lace-like patterns and a little door in the roof that Nethercott speaks through as if Thistlefoot itself is speaking.
NETHERCOTT: (As Thistlefoot) Before I was a house, I was a baby chick cracked loose from an egg.
YU: She even has a Baba Yaga puppet who sits on the roof and talks to a little skeleton.
NETHERCOTT: (As Baba Yaga) Good morning, Reb Skeleton.
(As Reb Skeleton) Good morning, Baba Yaga.
You know, I couldn't let Isaac and Bellatine have all the puppetry fun. That just wouldn't be fair.
YU: It's folklore's ability to balance fun and solemnity, joy and suffering that Nethercott loves to study and write.
NETHERCOTT: It allows us to be playful and fun and, like, wide-eyed in awe. And it also allows us to address some things we may not have the ability to address otherwise.
YU: Including the memories that haunt each of us, whether we know it or not."...
..."NETHERCOTT: I'm going to let the house tell the next part of this story.
YU: Her puppet theater is a beautiful white box with blue window shutters cut into lace-like patterns and a little door in the roof that Nethercott speaks through as if Thistlefoot itself is speaking.
NETHERCOTT: (As Thistlefoot) Before I was a house, I was a baby chick cracked loose from an egg.
YU: She even has a Baba Yaga puppet who sits on the roof and talks to a little skeleton.
NETHERCOTT: (As Baba Yaga) Good morning, Reb Skeleton.
(As Reb Skeleton) Good morning, Baba Yaga.
You know, I couldn't let Isaac and Bellatine have all the puppetry fun. That just wouldn't be fair.
YU: It's folklore's ability to balance fun and solemnity, joy and suffering that Nethercott loves to study and write.
NETHERCOTT: It allows us to be playful and fun and, like, wide-eyed in awe. And it also allows us to address some things we may not have the ability to address otherwise.
YU: Including the memories that haunt each of us, whether we know it or not."...
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