![]() ![]() She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband, son, and daughter. KAREN RUSSELL has received a MacArthur Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship, the 5 under 35 prize from the National Book Foundation, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, and the Berlin Prize from the American Academy. ![]() ![]() Orange World is a miracle of storytelling from a true modern master. The landscape in which these stories unfold is a feral, slippery, purgatorial space, bracketed by the void-yet within it Russell captures the exquisite beauty and tenderness of ordinary life. And in the brilliant, hilarious title story, a new mother desperate to ensure her infant's safety strikes a diabolical deal, agreeing to breastfeed the devil in exchange for his protection. The story is more about feeling than rational explanation and I guess mothers have quite different reaction to it than me, because I understand what was meant, but not truly feel it. In The Prospectors, two opportunistic young women fleeing the Great Depression strike out for new territory, and find themselves fighting for their lives. ‘Orange world’ mean the place of potential little dangers for a child, between the deadly dangerous Red world and safe Green world. In Bog Girl, a young man falls in love with a two-thousand-year-old girl that he's extracted from a mass of peat in a Northern European bog. Karen Russell's comedic genius and mesmerizing talent for creating outlandish predicaments that uncannily mirror our inner lives is on full display in these eight exuberant, arrestingly vivid, unforgettable stories. ![]()
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