![]() At first read, I found this story less densely weird and revealing than some of Russell's stories in St. In "Dougbert Shackleton's Rules for Antarctic Tailgating," we are treated to a very bizarre, very hopeless band of Team Krill supporters who venture down to the South Pole to cheer on their boys against Team Whale. "The Barn at the End of Our Term" concerns the reincarnation of certain U.S. Some of the stories in this collection push further into absurdism. An old vampire who does not know, anymore, what sort of man or monster he is. A boy in Strong Beach plagued by the coincidence of his transforming adolescent form and an invasion of seagulls. ![]() Japanese girls stolen away from their homes and transformed, slowly, into giant silkworms that reel thread for their empire. Here, as before, we have forlorn youth, confused desires, and misplaced monsters. ![]() Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006) and Swamplandia! (2012 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction). ![]() ![]() In Vampires in the Lemon Grove, her third book and second collection of short stories, Karen Russell does not deviate very far from those characters and themes familiar to readers of her previous work, St. ![]()
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