![]() Overall, the book drags on in some ways, and I thought there was too much happening – not in the plot, but in the meshing of those dimensions I mentioned. I’d day the book was magical realism, but with more fantasy and snippets of folklore. ![]() It felt like there were so many worlds meshed together, each vying for its own survival. The book is odd, meshing together severed, but living, hands, creature from another dimension, Night as its own character. ![]() What happens is nothing short of fantastical and morbid, but in all the right ways. it’s a suicide mission, because stepping into BYs is never a good idea. One day Vassa’s one-week-older-than-her halfsister sends Vassa off to BYs for some lightbulbs. And in Vassa in the Night, that’s what happens – her mother dies, but not before giving little Vassa a wooden doll named Ergs who keeps her company and gives her advice. Vassa – or – Vassa Lisa is the equivalent of Vasilisa the beautiful, the Russian fairytale where a beautiful little girl’s mother gives her a living wooden doll before she dies. The store also dances and lights up and changes position, and it’s known that any shoplifters will be killed. Babs Yagg ( Baba Yaga) owns a franchise in Brooklyn called BY’s, a convenience store that has severed heads on stakes outside its parking lot. ![]() Vassa in the Night gives a modern spin on the tale. A fantastical retelling of the Russian Baba Yaga mixed in with a Cinderella-esque wicked stepmother/sisters. ![]()
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