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St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Stories

by Karen Russell ยท 2007

ISBN: 0307387631 9780307387639

Category: Fiction / Short Stories (single author)

Page count: 208

<p><b>Here is the debut short story collection from the author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist <i>Swamplandia! </i>and the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling <i>Vampires in the Lemon Grove.</i></b><br><br>In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author <i>Orange World and Other Stories </i>takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells.<br><br>Filled with inventiveness and heart, <i>St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves</i> is the dazzling debut of a blazingly original voice.</p>