![]() ![]() Vasya sees things others don’t, things she recognizes from tales told around the fire, the old gods of hearth, home and forest. ![]() Pyotr knows she is different from the start – quiet and obedient, as a girl-child must be, but with a wildness and otherworldliness that is never entirely hidden. It gives nothing away to tell you that Marina dies in childbirth, leaving Pyotr to raise Vasya and her older siblings. ![]() The Bear and The Nightingale tells the story of Vasya, a “black-haired girl-child” born to a Boyar lord, Pyotr, and his wife, Marina, in the deep north woods of ancient ‘Rus. Something goes a bit awry towards the end, but more on that later. Set in a deep mythic past – in this case, 14th century Russia – The Bear and the Nightingale lives in the “small but mighty space where fantasy and literary fiction can clasp hands and create a brilliant story that resonates in the soul,” writes Adrian Liang at Omnivoracious. When no one was looking I snuck in a total pleasure read – an impulse purchase on my ipad – one of Amazon’s “Best Books of January.” I succumbed to the temptation of The Bear and The Nightingale, by Katherine Arden (think Eowyn Ivey’s The Snow Child and Neil Gaiman’s The Graveyard Book). ![]()
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