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From the author of the moment New York Times best retailer Swamplandia! (a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), a dazzling new collection of reviews that showcases Karen Russell's items at their inimitable best. Within the collection's marvelous name story, two aging vampires in a sun-drenched Italian lemon grove find their hundred-year relationship tested when one of these develops a fear of flying. In "The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach, 1979", a dejected teen discovers that the world is conversing with him through talismanic things left in a seagull's nest. "Proving Up" and "The Graveless Doll of Eric Mutis" - reviews of children left to fend for themselves in dire predicaments - find Russell veering into more sinister territory, and ultimately crossing the lines into full-scale horror. In "THE BRAND NEW Veterans", a massage therapy therapist working with a tattooed war veteran discovers she's the power to treat by manipulating the images on his body. In all, these wondrous new items display a young writer of superlative originality and technology coming into the full range and scale of her capabilities.

Category: Short Stories