Emphasis mine. Sounds like a fine story.
SunJournal.com - New in paperback: "With her debut story collection, 'St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves' (Vintage, 256 pages, $13.95), Karen Russell finds herself in good company. New York magazine put her on a list of 25 promising writers under age 26, and in April, Granta magazine brought international attention when it included Russell on its list of best young American novelists.
Such lists are subjective, but Granta's track record is impressive; more than a decade earlier, Granta lauded emerging writers Lorrie Moore, Edwidge Danticat, Jeffrey Eugenides and Madison Smartt Bell.
It's too early to say whether Russell will join the pantheon, but she writes with a narrative verve and energy that push the 10 stories of 'St. Lucy's' to odd, wonderful places. Many of her stories are set in the swampy regions of Florida. In 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator,' a 12-year-old is left to look after her family's alligator theme park with her older, possibly possessed sister."
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I had not gotten to this book yet, having heard the author interviewed briefly, but I'm glad you've found your favorite story in it already...
Yeah, and I haven't even read it!
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