If you read the blurb and thought "awesome", then you're probably good. A story inspired by the Russian folktale Vassilissa the Beautiful. The book promises a fairy tale version of Brooklyn, NYC, with talking wooden dolls, a witch's curse and people partying on rooftops at sunset. This is one of those books that I absolutely loved but I'd hesitate before rushing out to recommend it. I’m slipping, saying too much in a night this deep and strange the boundaries start to blur. With Erg’s help, Vassa just might be able to break the witch’s curse and free her Brooklyn neighborhood. Erg is a tough-talking wooden doll with sticky fingers, a bottomless stomach, and a ferocious cunning. So when Vassa’s stepsister sends her out for light bulbs in the middle of night, she knows it could easily become a suicide mission.īut Vassa has a bit of luck hidden in her pocket, a gift from her dead mother. Babs Yagg, the owner of the local convenience store, has a policy of beheading shoplifters-and sometimes innocent shoppers as well. In Vassa’s neighborhood, where she lives with her stepmother and bickering stepsisters, one might stumble onto magic, but stumbling away again could become an issue. A whole lot of Brooklyn is like that now-but not Vassa’s working-class neighborhood. In the enchanted kingdom of Brooklyn, the fashionable people put on cute shoes, go to parties in warehouses, drink on rooftops at sunset, and tell themselves they’ve arrived.
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