The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel (Winternight Trilogy) Sam Bloch on city streets

on city streets

Wars erupt in the name of water as Los Angeles booms

we see the flash of light before the shock wave strikes

and just like the river

where she began forging identity documents for Jewish children fleeing to neutral Switzerland

The Bear and the Nightingale: A Novel (Winternight Trilogy) Sam Bloch on city streetsWinter lasts most of the year at the edge of the Russian wilderness, and in the long nights, Vasilisa and her siblings love to gather by the fire to listen to their nurses fairy tales. Above all, Vasya loves the story of Frost, the blue eyed winter demon. Wise Russians fear him, for he claims unwary souls, and they honor the spirits that protect their homes from evil. Then Vasyas widowed father brings home a new wife from Moscow. Fiercely devout,