| Karen Russell's arresting first novel entitled St. Lucy's | | | | As the fables unfold, Russell establishes a thick, |
| Home for Girls Raised by Wolves has received rave | | | | otherworldly haze that doesn't lift - even between |
| reviews from the likes of People Magazine and The | | | | stories. An adults-only blizzard-themed skating party |
| New York Post, and for good reason. Each tale in this | | | | goes terribly wrong when the children come in search |
| darkly surreal collection transports the reader to the | | | | of their parents and unintentionally release the ice |
| murky heat of the Florida Everglades and continues to | | | | skating apes from their enclosures (Lady Yeti and the |
| haunt them even after moving on to the next story. | | | | Palace of Artificial Snows). A little girl disappears with |
| Creepy, fantastical and sparkling with whimsy, each | | | | the tide while riding a crab shell (Haunting Olivia). A |
| story shares a small connection with the rest but still | | | | retirement community whose residents live in |
| seems light years away from the idea of real life. In | | | | discarded ships must befriend teenage criminals (Out |
| Girls Raised by Wolves, young women are romanced | | | | to Sea), and a young girl abandons her school trip in |
| by spirits (Ava Wrestles the Alligator), spectral diving | | | | favor of getting trapped in a giant conch shell (The |
| goggles make ghost-watching a viable hobby (Haunting | | | | City of Shells). |
| Olivia) and narcoleptic children go to sleep-away camp | | | | Each story is stands alone in magnificence; together, |
| with ones who relive historical disasters in their dreams | | | | they form an anthology of modern-day mythology fit |
| (Z.Z.'s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers). | | | | for every cynical fairy tale lover. |