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A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent. In the collection’s title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In “Haunting Olivia,” two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab. In “Z.Z.’s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers,” a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists . . . ). And “Ava Wrestles the Alligator” introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty—Grandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Ava—proprietors of Swamplandia!, the island’s #1 Gator Theme Park and Café. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim “Feed the gators, don’t talk to strangers.” Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when you’re a kid it’s often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them. Russell’s stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant life—in an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surreal—Karen Russell shows us who we are and how we live.

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The stories in this book are ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Wed Aug 22 08:09:51 -0700 2007 Wed Sep 12 14:50:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> 2 1 false false Sat Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 20 22:41:44 -0800 2009 Wed Mar 18 10:33:46 -0700 2009 Kelly Link’s and Aimee Bender’s short stories are only okay. Occasionally one of their tales will astound me, but mostly I’m a bit “meh” on them—especially compared to how much many readers I respect love them. (Personally, I prefer Stacey Richter.) So when I say...more...]]> 5 2 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 21:55:19 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 21:57:18 -0800 2007 3 1 false false Sun Feb 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 05 21:43:43 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 22 22:11:58 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jun 15 16:18:46 -0700 2007 Wed Jul 11 08:20:16 -0700 2007
As many people have already noted, these are a collection of coming-...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jun 06 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 05 12:38:42 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 09:31:05 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 1 false false Thu Apr 17 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Apr 11 07:06:20 -0700 2008 Thu Apr 17 10:05:52 -0700 2008
Individually, the stories in this volume are highly creative, heartbreaking and imaginative, but taken as a volume, the sheer similarities between all of the tales made me want to pull my hai...more...]]> 3 1 false false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri May 04 11:26:46 -0700 2007 Wed Oct 24 12:41:40 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Feb 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 20:21:56 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 22 20:25:54 -0800 2009
St. Lucy’s was sitting face-out on the shelf, and for b...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Nov 24 12:40:09 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 12:41:24 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 18:38:43 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 19:00:30 -0700 2009
But also yes, th...more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 19:46:10 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 11:11:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Fri Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 11:08:59 -0800 2009 Fri Mar 06 11:09:04 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Tue Apr 15 09:42:11 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 15 09:45:21 -0700 2008
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My literary "line in the sand" can be somewhat fluid--sometimes accepting books that at other times I would put down after one page....more...]]>