Sarah Porter (1)

This has to be one of the strangest books I've ever read. A retelling of a Baba Yaga story, this version is set in contemporary Brooklyn as the nights stretch longer. Vassa is a young woman who's lost her mother and been abandoned by her father, left to live with a stepmom and two stepsisters. She ends up venturing to the local BY's in part because of an adversarial stepsister and in part due to her own stubbornness. Once there, however, Vassa is trapped and must find a way to free everyone trapped by BY's dark magic or else. An interesting read, but not one I can summon much enthusiasm for.… (plus d'informations)