"Much later, they found Mirabella wading in the shallows of a distant river, trying to strangle a mallard with her rosary beads."
I haven't even finished reading the title story of this collection--which is the last story, but with a title like that, who could wait?--but I'm pretty sure that this Karen Russell is my kind of writer. This is a story about girls, who are the offspring of werewolves, who are brought to a convent to be trained to act like normal human beings. How's that for an original premise?
Just in case I fall down a Karen Russell rabbit hole, here is a list of her works to date:
Novels
Swamplandia! (2011)
The Antidote (2025)
Shorter Fiction
St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (2006)
Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Stories (2013)
Sleep Donation: A Novella (2014)
Orange World and Other Stories (2019)
Uncollected Stories
"A Family Restaurant" (2011)
"The Ghost Birds" (2021)
Non-Fiction
"Beeper World" (2014)
"Helping Hand: Robots, Video Games, and a Radical New Approach to Treating Stroke Patients" (2015)
"The Bracing Wisdom of Joy Williams’s 'The Changeling'” (2018)
"Letter of Recommendation: Superstitions" (2019)
"How the Coronavirus Has Infected Our Vocabulary" (2020)
"The Secret Author of Our Dreams" (2023)
"What If Things Get Better?" (2023)
Other Things
There was also an opera based on her story "Proving Up" (2018)
Co-Lyricist for False We Hope (2023)
Librettist and Co-Lyricist for The Night Falls (2023)
There will be an opera based on her story "The Galloping Cure" (2026)
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