“Another marvelous and whimsical narrative project from one of the most interesting small presses you’re likely to encounter.” —Kelly Link, author of Get In Trouble A kaleidoscopic tale of cruel beasts, daring thieves, lost sweethearts, and a family on the run, told through twenty-six fold-up paper fortune tellers. Each cootie catcher features eight possible endings—but the endings are also beginnings, complications, transformations, jumping-off points for other parts of the tale. Read them alone or with a partner, using any method you like: counting off bolded words and numbers, choosing panels that strike your fancy, or simply laying them flat. From jailbreaks to kissing practice, murders to museum heists, each trip through Lianna Fled the Cranberry Bog reveals new sides of this multifaceted, interactive tale of wonder and terror.
Author
GennaRose Nethercott is a writer and folklorist. Her first book, THE LUMBERJACK'S DOVE, was selected by Louise Glück as a winner of the National Poetry Series, and her debut novel THISTLEFOOT is forthcoming from Knopf Anchor. Whether authoring novels, poems, ballads, or even fold-up paper cootie catchers, her projects are all rooted in myth—and what our stories reveal about who we are. She tours nationally and internationally performing strange tales (often with puppets in tow) and composing poems-to-order on an antique typewriter with her team, The Traveling Poetry Emporium. She also conducts supernatural and historical research for the podcast Lore. Nethercott lives in the woodlands of Vermont, beside an old cemetery.
