Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to 'Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3, Somnambulists. . . ); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and finally, in the collection's poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raised by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns.
ISBN: | 9780099507321 |
Publication date: | 7th August 2008 |
Author: | Karen Russell |
Publisher: | Vintage an imprint of Random House |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 246 pages |
Genres: |
Shorter Reads Modern and Contemporary Fiction Comic (humorous) fantasy Magical realism Narrative theme: Coming of age |