ISBN: 0307947475 9780307947475

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 256

<p><b>From the author of the novel <i>Swamplandia!—</i>a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize—comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author’s gifts at their inimitable best. <br></b><br>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 family’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.<br><br><br><b>Named a Best Book of the Year by:<br><i>The Boston Globe<br>O, The Oprah Magazine<br>Huffington Post<br>The A.V. Club<br></i><br>A <i>Washington Post</i> Notable Book<br>An <i>NPR </i>Great Read of 2013</b></p>