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Only instead of a medieval or fantasy world, its set in a part of brooklyn that. Sep 20, 2016 vassa in the night starts off like a fairly straightforward tale of adolescent angst, and then takes some wildly fantastical turns, but porter s prose is so tight and imaginative, and her empathy for her 16yo protagonists feelings is so great, that its easy to roll with her as the plot grows increasingly and genuinely surprising. We found her previous lost voices trilogy to be full of some truly incredible, even cosmic passages of writing, magical in just the way youd want a mermaid story to be it was so good in fact that it got me over the substantial hurdle of reading. A few nights back we went to the book launch event for friend sarah porters new ya novel vassa in the night at books of wonder. Oct 14, 2016 vassa in the night by sarah porter an lsd trip. Vassa in the night, a retelling of vasilisa the beautiful or alternately, vasilisa the brave, is one such story, and when it comes to my craving for weird, odd and very, very dark, it delivers.
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