NPR's Elissa Nadworny talks with GennaRose Nethercott about the power of folklore and her collection of strange and fantastic short stories, "Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart." According to ...

In her debut book Thistlefoot, author GennaRose Nethercott reimagines the centuries-old character Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in a shtetl in 1919 Russia, in a time of civil war and pogroms.

According to GennaRose Nethercott, there are 50 beasts to break your heart - among them, maglits, easily taken in as pets... GENNAROSE NETHERCOTT: (Reading) They do a fine job with the dishes ...