St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell
The New Valley by Joshua Weil
Blood Kin by Ceridwen Dovey
Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing by Lydia Peelle
All the Living by C.E. Morgan
I haven’t read most of these books, but I loved Karen Russell’s book. I think she’s the most inventive writer to come around since George Saunders. I read” Haunting Olivia” in a debut fiction issue of The New Yorker and I was hooked. The story is imaginative, has elements of the fantastic and is a moving story of loss and adolescence. This is an amazing debut collection of stories and I’ve heard she’s working on a novel based on the story “Ava Wrestles the Alligator.”
