#GennaRose Nethercott

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A few days prior, at a Q&A after one of my readings, a young man in the audience raised his hand: Do you believe in ghosts? “Well, that depends.” I told him. “What is a ghost?” What I love most about ghost stories is their malleability. A ghost can be a heart beating beneath a floorboard. A father, appearing to his son to beg for vengeance. A party dress worn by your husband’s first wife, which you, the new wife, now don. A ghost can be a house, or a mirror, or a shadow. It would be reductive to define ghost-hood as simply a deceased person’s spirit appearing in the mortal realm. So then, how do we define a ghost? I personally have one, simple definition: a ghost is a manifestation of longing.

GennaRose Nethercott, from her essay ““A Ghost Is a Memory.” On Bodies, Belief, and the Places Ghost Stories Live”, published in Lit Hub, October 31, 2022

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gennrose nethercott "a ghost is a memory." on bodies, belief, and the places ghost stories live

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Winnie and Bellatine from Thistlefoot!

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JOMP BPC || May 14 || Should Win An Award: Fifty Beasts To Break Your Heart by GennaRose Nethercott

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Isaac thistlefoot should have been a tumblr sexyman but alas not enough people on tumblr read books

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“How do you ruin a people? Is it with fire? Is it with bullets? You can drag a man through the street tied to the back of a horse. You can incinerate a village. Can line families up in rows against a brick wall and fell them, one by one, like a forest. But all it takes is one survivor, and the story lives on. One survivor to carry the poems and the songs, the prayers, the sorrows. It isn’t just taking a life that destroys a people. It’s taking their history.”

GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

[fortunatefires]

Thistlefoot is so damn good. The representation of generationsl trauma knocks me on my ass every single time. It's beautiful and sad and I just adore this story

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Yet another book haul…

I need to stop going to my local bookstore on my day off… but in my defense, these first two were books that I had ordered last time I was there and they just came in, so I did have a reason to go!

I adored The Lumberjack’s Dove when I read it last month, and I knew I needed my own copy of it, and when I also found out that GennaRose Nethercott was releasing a short story collection this year, I absolutely had to get my hands on it!!! I can’t wait to get into it soon!

And then I went to check out the sci fi/fantasy section and, well…

When I saw Gideon, Harrow, and Nona (all in my beloved paperback!!!) over there, I just had to get them. I haven’t finished Nona yet, but I KNOW I’m going to love it and I’ll want to reread all of them eventually. I’m fully on the Locked Tomb train, and I’m riding it wherever it takes us!!!

I definitely have to steer clear of the bookstore for a little while now…

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2024 reads / storygraph

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

fantasy short story collection of dark and quirky fairytales, including:

sapphics working at a roadside attraction called the eternal staircase

a clique of teen girls dabbling in witchcraft told in first person plural

an outcasted goat girl and vampire who become a family

and women who turn into houses, a girl who regularly magically drowns, a boy made of thread,

interesting writing styles & illustrations included

[wehavewords]

“There is no such thing as a ghost of the dead. Yet suffering has a way of begging to be remembered. Sometimes, as a story. Sometimes, as a wraith.”

GennaRose Nethercott, Thistlefoot

[libinih28]

"It felt clumsy and serrated, the sounds struggling to settle on his tongue. Strange that, to generations of his blood, this word must have tasted familiar. Tasted like belonging."

I BEG YOU, if Butchered Tongue means anything to you at all, please read Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott. I am on my knees BEGGING you to read it.

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As anyone who has known loss understands full well, lack is not in fact, an absence at all. It is a presence. A person we love dies, or leaves, or changes, and a gap forms. It takes on their shape. Mimics their movement. Echoes their voice like a mockingbird. We feel this gap take up space, filling every place our lost one once was, and now isn’t. It reflects in mirrors. Flickers in candle flames. A phantom. Do you believe in ghosts? Of course. I have seen longing grow legs and follow me.

GennaRose Nethercott, from her essay ““A Ghost Is a Memory.” On Bodies, Belief, and the Places Ghost Stories Live”, published in Lit Hub, October 31, 2022

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Botanic Tournament : Main Bracket !

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