Russell's stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant lifein an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surrealKaren Russell shows us who we are and how we live.
List of Readers Ava Wrestles the Alligator--Arielle Sitrick Haunting Olivia--Zach McLarty Z.Z.'s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers--Patrick Mackie The Star-Gazer's Log of Summer-Time Crime--Nick Chamian
from Children's Reminiscences of the Westward Migration--Jesse Bernstein Lady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows--J.B. Adkins The City of Shells--Kathe Mazur Out To Sea--Arthur Morey Accident Brief, Occurrence # 00/422--Kirby Heyborne St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves--Deirdre Lovejoy