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 a blazingly original voice.
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short fiction: not everybody’s jam. but i am partial to it, and to my eye, the strength of short fiction lies in its ability to humble the reader in the span of a few breaths. i read these stories and i felt humbled. the scope of their strange magic is compressed into stories that are really quite short–but their worlds and hearts are huge. each …
Post-Modernism has entered the culture via an incredibly long and convulsive series of fits and starts and is first discernible as early as the 18th century in Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne and again in Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert in 1856 and again in Ulysses by James Joyce in 1930 and again in the work of a flock of post-modernists …