Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: the novel Thistlefoot, 'Blessed' by GloRilla, Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers and more.
is the debut novel from author GennaRose Nethercott , and it's a really interesting reimagining of the Baba Yaga myth.
Nethercott reimagines Baba Yaga as a Jewish woman living in an Eastern European shtetl in 1919, a time of civil war and pogroms. The book goes back and forth between her life, what happened to her during this time, and also two of her descendants who inherit this sentient house and also the memories that haunt it.
And I'm particularly excited about her because I saw a football team, Jackson State, play her song"Blessed," and they got absolutely. It was a really beautiful moment to see a woman be celebrated in a space like this, to see a group of young Black men just going all the way up for a song made by a woman.
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