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Vampires in the Lemon Grove
A Literary Fiction Short Story Collection by Karen Russell
Subgenres:
- Magical Realism,
- Short Stories
This book is for you if you're into...
- Offbeat magical realism with darkly funny twists
- Stories where transformations get unsettling and weird
- Vampires who crave lemons instead of blood
From Little Stack
What if vampires, living in a sunny locale, decided to give up drinking blood and switch to lemons? What if a group of captive girls turned into silkworms and plotted revenge against their kidnappers? What if a group of bullies stumbled upon a scarecrow that looked uncannily like one of their former victims? These questions are more are answered in Karen Russell's endlessly imaginative debut story collection, which demonstrated her gifts of humor, melancholy, and pastiche. Some of these ideas may sound silly but Russell always imbues them with a sly wit and willingness to take them to very dark places.
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.
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