St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Vintage Contemporaries)

By Karen Russell

A San Francisco Chronicle, la Times, and Chicago Tribune Best booklet of the Year

In those ten glittering tales, debut writer Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. the following wolf-like women are reformed by means of nuns, a relations makes their residing wrestling alligators in a topic park, and little ladies sail away on crab shells. full of gorgeous inventiveness and middle, St. Lucy’s domestic for women Raised by means of Wolves introduces a radiant new author.

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