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

A San Francisco Chronicle, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year

"How I wish these were my own words, instead of breakneck demon writer Karen Russell's, whose stories begin, in prose form, where the jabberwock left off. . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire." --Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Book Review

"Karen Russell is a storyteller with a voice like no other. . . . Laced with humor and compassion." --Lauren Gallo, People

"One of the strangest, creepiest, most surreal collections of tales published in recent memory. . . . Her writing bristles with confidence." --June Sawyers, San Francisco Chronicle

"Twent-five--year-old wunderkind Karen Russell . . . proves herself a mythologist of the darkest and most disturbing sort. . . . Ten unforgettable, gorgeously imaginative tales."--Jenny Feldman, Elle

In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author of Swamplandia! 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.