St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

by Karen Russell

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 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.

• ISBN10: 0307276678
• ISBN13: 9780307276674
• Publish Date: 14 August 2007 (first published 5 September 2006)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: Random House USA Inc
• Imprint: Vintage Books
• Format: Paperback (US Trade)
• Pages: 256
• Language: English
• URL: https://penguinrandomhouse.com/books/isbn/9780307276674

Reviews

[jamiereadthis]

Sometimes I get lonely for a certain place, and once I’ve puzzled out and put my finger on where exactly it is, it’s located on the inside of a book.

(Here, the alligator swamps of Florida, the itchy magic of haunted siblings.)

That’s how I guess it’s okay for me to say, when someone asks where I’ve traveled, or where I want to go, I can get away with answering “everywhere.”

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First read, 2009: I loved this book. Maybe sometimes the voices were precious and a story ended a page (or ten) too soon, but I tend to love things even more if they’re just flawed enough to be supremely more interesting, and man, I loved this book.