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    "description": "In the tradition of modern fairytales like American Gods and Spinning Silver comes a sweeping epic rich in Eastern European folklore\u2014a debut novel about the ancestral hauntings that stalk us, and the uncanny power of story.\n\nThe 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 a mysterious inheritance, the siblings are reunited\u2014only to discover that their bequest isn\u2019t land or money, but something far stranger: a sentient house on chicken legs. \n \nThistlefoot, as the house is called, has arrived from the Yagas\u2019 ancestral home in Russia\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.  \n \nAn 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.",
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