Vampires in the Lemon Grove
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University in Evanston/Illinois Englisch und Spanisch. Ihre Erzählungen erscheinen u. a. im New Yorker und in Granta. Sie hat den "Transatlantic Review/Henfield Foundation Award" erhalten und wurde 2009 von der National Book Foundation zu den fünf besten Schrifstellern unter 35 gewählt.
From the author of the novel Swamplandia! a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author s gifts at their inimitable best.
Within these pages, a community of girls held captive in a Japanese silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms and plot revolution; a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow that bears an uncanny resemblance to a missing classmate that they used to torment; a family s disastrous quest for land in the American West has grave consequences; and in the marvelous title story, two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try to slake their thirst for blood and come to terms with their immortal relationship.
Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Boston Globe
O, The Oprah Magazine
Huffington Post
The A.V. Club
A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Great Read of 2013