This may be the greatest gift of Karen Russell’s collection: by making us confront the surreal, she dares us to look closer at ourselves. The stories in Orange World are not light and fluffy they require attention and focus and introspection. Equal parts bizarre and haunting, this story leaves you questioning the meaning of devotion.

Perhaps the most arresting story is “The Bad Graft,” a tale of a love triangle involving two people and a tree at Joshua Tree National Park. Summary: From the Pulitzer Finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best. There is a fairy tale quality that underscores the terror of certain moments in this and other stories. In “The Gondoliers,” three sisters steer people around obstacles of destruction after a manmade disaster has changed the landscape and ruined lives. Russell’s prior books, including the 2011 Pulitzer Prize-nominated Swamplandia, rattle with the same urgency and wit, but there is a sharpness in Orange World that pierces more deeply than her novels. 'Orange World and Other Stories' is a collection of seven parable-like stories that juxtapose the supernatural world with societal familiarity. The surrealism and pitch-perfect tension of this story echoes throughout the book as Russell presents real people struggling to find peace in worlds gone mad. infants safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed. And in the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her. find themselves fighting for their lives.

fleeing the Great Depression strike out for new territory, and. In the title story of Karen Russell’s latest collection, Orange World and Other Stories, a mother finds a community of supportive women as she fights a battle of wills against a succubus to protect her newborn child. From the Pulitzer finalist and universally beloved author of the New York Times best sellers Swamplandia and Vampires in the Lemon Grove, a stunning new. 'TheProspectors,'two opportunistic young women.

Orange world and other stories