{"product_id":"2940169205411","title":"St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories","description":"A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in \u003ci\u003eSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e introduce a radiant new talent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the collection's title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In \"Haunting Olivia,\" 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. In \"Z.Z.'s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers,\" a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists . . . ). And \"Ava Wrestles the Alligator\" introduces the remarkable Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty-Grandpa Sawtooth, Chief Bigtree, and twelve-year-old Ava-proprietors of Swamplandia!, the island's #1 Gator Theme Park and Café. Ava is still mourning her mother when her father disappears, his final words to her the swamp maxim \"Feed the gators, don't talk to strangers.\" Left to look after seventy incubating alligators and an older sister who may or may not be having sex with a succubus, Ava meets the Bird Man, and learns that when you're a kid it's often hard to tell the innocuous secrets from the ones that will kill you if you keep them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRussell's stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant life-in an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surreal-Karen Russell shows us who we are and how we live.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eList of Readers\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAva Wrestles the Alligator\u003c\/i\u003e--Arielle Sitrick\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHaunting Olivia\u003c\/i\u003e--Zach McLarty\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eZ.Z.'s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers\u003c\/i\u003e--Patrick Mackie\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Star-Gazer's Log of Summer-Time Crime\u003c\/i\u003e--Nick Chamian\u003cbr\u003efrom \u003ci\u003eChildren's Reminiscences of the Westward Migration\u003c\/i\u003e--Jesse Bernstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLady Yeti and the Palace of Artificial Snows\u003c\/i\u003e--J.B. Adkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe City of Shells\u003c\/i\u003e--Kathe Mazur\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOut To Sea\u003c\/i\u003e--Arthur Morey\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAccident Brief, Occurrence # 00\/422\u003c\/i\u003e--Kirby Heyborne\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSt. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e--Deirdre Lovejoy","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47104422969584,"sku":"2940169205411","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169205411_p0.jpg?v=1763675127","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169205411","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}