St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Aug 14, 2007 - Fiction - 208 pages

Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia! and the New York Times bestselling Vampires in the Lemon Grove.

In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author Orange World and Other Stories 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 inventiveness and heart, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves is the dazzling debut of a blazingly original voice.

 

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Ava Wrestles the Alligator
3
Haunting Olivia
26
Z Z s SleepAway Camp for Disordered Dreamers
49
The StarGazers Log of SummerTime Crime
72
from Childrens Reminiscences of
103
Lady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows
132
The City of Shells
156
Out to
179
Accident Brief Occurrence 00422
197
Acknowledgments
218
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About the author (2007)

Karen Russell, a native of Miami, won the 2012 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, Swamplandia! (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2012 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She lives in Philadelphia.

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