![]() ![]() I can't wait to see what strange and beautiful places Russell will take us next. Orange World and Other Stories by Karen Russell Critics Opinion: Readers Opinion: Not Yet Rated First Published: May 2019, 288 pages Paperback: May 2020, 288 pages Genres Rate this book Write a Review Book Reviewed by: Lisa Butts Buy This Book About this Book Summary Excerpt BookBrowse Media Reviews Reader Reviews. Moments of our humanity and how we make decisions for ourselves and the Zombies, and devils, she makes us think about the most vulnerable Russell is a literary wizard who imagines scenarios that could neverĮxist in any other writer's head. The stories are often funny and always dropping you into strange, new worlds. In The Gondoliers, sisters traverse the dangerous waters of a post-apocalyptic Florida by singing and in Orange World, a new mother encounters a devil who preys on her fears and demands to be fed. The final two stories may have been my favorite, though. It's not the only pairing, as men consider their purposes in The Tornado Auction and Black Corfu (although careers raising tornadoes and preventing the undead from rising are as different as can be). ![]() In The Bad Graft and Bog Girl, characters spend time in nature as a woman pricks her finger on a Joshua tree and a young man falls in love with the body of a woman pulled from the bog. The book starts with a pair of friends hoping to take advantage of a few marks at a fancy hotel, only to discover that the party they've crashed is attended only by ghosts. Her newest collection, Orange World and Other Stories, is full of tales of worlds that are just a bit more bizarre than the one we live in. ![]() Karen Russell is a highly awarded author whose stories are both beautiful and unsettling. ![]()
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