![]() ![]() ![]() Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void-yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. And in the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant's safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. Russell is already known for her short stories, Orange World being her third collection and having had work appear in everything from The New Yorker to Zoetrope to The Best American Short Stories. In "The Prospectors," two opportunistic young women fleeing the Great Depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. In "Bog Girl," a young man falls in love with a two-thousand-year-old girl that he's extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. In her surreal worlds, life is passing strange, but it is not devoid of wry comfort. ![]() I read her latest collection, Orange World, and found myself in awe of her. Russell is among the most skilled of this generation’s fabulist writers. Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. Talking with author Karen Russell, author of Orange World and Other Stories, about the importance of boundaries, our fascination with frontiers, and the fine line between literature and a. Specifically, I love short stories by Karen Russell. ![]()
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