Karen Russell
Karen Russell (born 1981) is an American author. Noted for her distinct and visual style, her debut novel, Swamplandia!, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
James Tiptree, Jr. Award nominee 2006.
A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
In these ten glittering stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells. Filled with stunning inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduces a radiant new writer.
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