Author(s): Karen Russell

Fiction

Named a Best Book of the Year by: "The Boston GlobeO, The Oprah MagazineHuffington PostThe A.V. Club"A "Washington Post" Notable BookAn "NPR "Great Read of 2013 From the author of the novel "Swamplandia!--"a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author's gifts at their inimitable best. Within these pages, a community of girls held captive in a Japanese silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms and plot revolution; a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow that bears an uncanny resemblance to a missing classmate that they used to torment; a family's disastrous quest for land in the American West has grave consequences; and in the marvelous title story, two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try to slake their thirst for blood and come to terms with their immortal relationship.