Author: karenrussell

A New York Times bestseller from a MacArthur Fellow: For 13-year-old Ava, her family’s swampland theme park is the only world she knows — until her sister’s disappearance sends her on an epic quest through the Everglades. “Lavishly imagined and spectacularly crafted… Ravishing” (Booklist).

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