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These ten extraordinary stories introduce a radiant new talent, as well as a world - the surreal marshes of the Florida Everglades - whose outlandish predicaments magically reveal the truth of our own lives. A blazingly original voice, a dazzling debut, a thrilling discovery.

Karen Russell, a native of Miami, has been featured in both The New Yorker's debut fiction issue and New York magazine's 25 People to Watch Under the Age of 25. She is a graduate of the Columbia M.F.A. program and the 2005 recipient of the Transatlantic/Henfield Foundation Award.

"This book is a miracle. Karen Russell is a literary mystic, channeling spectral tales that surge with feeling. A devastatingly beautiful debut by a powerful new writer." (Ben Marcus)

The story "Ava Wrestles the Alligator" is a sample from the novel that Karen Rusell is currently writing. She expects to complete it by July 2007, a two-page summary is available. Knopf will publish this book, too.

Q&A from the New Yorker:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/articles/050613on_onlineonly02

UK: Chatto & Windus/Vintage; NL: Artemis (Ambo Anthos); I: Elliot Edizioni;

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