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ORANGE WORLD AND OTHER STORIES
From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia! and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new collection of short fiction that showcases her extraordinary gifts of language and imagination
These eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, emotionally precise stories present one of America's most gifted young writers at the top of her form.
In "Bog Girl," a young man falls in love with a two-thousand-year-old girl that he's extracted from a mass of peat in a Floridian bog. In "The Bad Graft," a couple on a road trip stop in Joshua Tree National Park, where the spirit of a giant tree accidentally infects the young woman, their fates becoming permanently entangled. In the brilliant, hilarious "Orange World," a new mother desperate to ensure her daughter's health strikes a diabolical deal--she agrees to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. In "The Prospectors," two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives.
Survival stories, love stories, stories of surreal and magnificent transformation--this is haunting and beautiful work from a true modern master.
A MacArthur Fellowship (genius award) recipient and Pulitzer Finalist, Karen Russell creates fantastical worlds that hum with recognizable rhythms. Her previous books (the novel SWAMPLANDIA! and story collections ST. LUCY'S HOME FOR GIRLS RAISED BY WOLVES and VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE) were published to both critical and commercial success. Critics have called her "one of the great American writers of our young century" (NPR), and her work "heartbreakingly vulnerable and keenly emotional ... a tour de force" (Elle).
These eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, emotionally precise stories present one of America's most gifted young writers at the top of her form.
In "Bog Girl," a young man falls in love with a two-thousand-year-old girl that he's extracted from a mass of peat in a Floridian bog. In "The Bad Graft," a couple on a road trip stop in Joshua Tree National Park, where the spirit of a giant tree accidentally infects the young woman, their fates becoming permanently entangled. In the brilliant, hilarious "Orange World," a new mother desperate to ensure her daughter's health strikes a diabolical deal--she agrees to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. In "The Prospectors," two opportunistic young women fleeing the depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives.
Survival stories, love stories, stories of surreal and magnificent transformation--this is haunting and beautiful work from a true modern master.
A MacArthur Fellowship (genius award) recipient and Pulitzer Finalist, Karen Russell creates fantastical worlds that hum with recognizable rhythms. Her previous books (the novel SWAMPLANDIA! and story collections ST. LUCY'S HOME FOR GIRLS RAISED BY WOLVES and VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE) were published to both critical and commercial success. Critics have called her "one of the great American writers of our young century" (NPR), and her work "heartbreakingly vulnerable and keenly emotional ... a tour de force" (Elle).
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Published 2019-05-01 by Alfred A. Knopf |