“A writer to track and to treasure.” - Chicago Tribune “Sea deep, scary smart, richly inventive.” - More
Jessica Gentile, Paste Magazine, #1 Best Book of the Year
And yet these haunting tales are written with such clarity and recognizable perspectives that they manage the greatest feat of all: in the surreal, we see ourselves. The stories in Vampires portray ordinary life with an otherworldly twist in a fascinating and unexpected way. “No one combines the fantastical with the mundane quite like Karen Russell. “Darkly inventive, demonically driven.” - Elle “One of the great American writers of our young century.” -Maureen Corrigan, NPR “Hilarious, exquisite, first-rate.” -Joy Williams, The New York Times Book Review Russell’s stories will be seizing our imaginations-and nibbling at the edges of our nightmares-for years to come.” - The Miami Herald “Karen Russell’s imagination is once again on full, Technicolor, mind-bending display. There’s absolutely no living author quite like Karen Russell.” -Michael Schaub, NPR “One of the most innovative, inspired short-story collections in the past decade. “From apparent influences as disparate as George Saunders, Saki, Stephen King, Carson McCullers and Joy Williams, has fashioned a quirky, textured voice that is thoroughly her own: lyrical and funny, fantastical and meditative.” -Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
Vampires in the Lemon Grove stands out as Russell’s best book . with prose so alive it practically backflips off the page.” - San Francisco Chronicle Within these pages, a community of girls held captive in a Japanese silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms and plot revolution a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow that bears an uncanny resemblance to a missing classmate that they used to torment a family’s disastrous quest for land in the American West has grave consequences and in the marvelous title story, two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try to slake their thirst for blood and come to terms with their immortal relationship. Clubįrom the author of the novel Swamplandia!-a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize-comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author’s gifts at their inimitable best. Named a Best Book of the Year by: The Boston Globe, O, The Oprah Magazine, Huffington Post, The A.V.
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