![]() ![]() ![]() 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. Inspired by the Russian folktale Vassilissa the Beautiful and Sarah Porters years of experience teaching creative writing to New York City students, Vassa in the Night weaves a dark yet hopeful tale about a young girls search for home, love, and belonging. Babs Yagg, the owner of the local convenience store, has a policy of beheading shoplifters-and sometimes innocent shoppers as well. Vassa and her magical talking doll, Erg, live in uncertain times but it doesn’t help that Vassa’s mother is dead and her father left. 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. Vassa In The Night is a book set in the world as we know it, but something strange is occurring with the night it’s lasting longer and longer but no one can prove it. 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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