Karen Russell
Named a Best Book of the Year by:,The Boston Globe,O, The Oprah Magazine,Huffington Post,The A.V. Club,A ,Washington Post, Notable Book,An ,NPR ,Great Read of 2013,From the author of the novel ,Swamplandia!â€”,a finalist for the Pulitzer Prizeâ€”comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the authorâ€™s gifts at their inimitable best. ,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 familyâ€™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.,Vampires in the lemon grove --,Reeling for the Empire --,Seagull army descends on Strong Beach, 1979 --,Proving up --,Barn at the end of our term --,Dougbert Shackleton's rules for Antarctic tailgating --,New veterans --,Graveless doll of Eric Mutis
Short Stories,Fiction,Fantasy,Magical Realism,Horror,Literary Fiction,Adult,Adult Fiction,Audiobook,Paranormal,Vampires
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories