![]() These are stories about identity and the way it is constituted through both the stories we inherit and those we tell ourselves. Taken together, these stories examine how we know ourselves-among others and through narrative. The eight stories in Vampires explore themes of monstrosity, violence, and alienation. ![]() Though Swamplandia! is a delightful book, Russell’s second collection of short stories, Vampires in the Lemon Grove, delivers all the snappy, crisp prose readers have come to expect from Russell without the sense of narrative attenuation that arguably burdens her first novel. Karen Russell’s new short story collection arrives a short two years after the publication of her much-lauded 2011 Swamplandia!, a novel that drew the attentions of both literary and mainstream reading communities. ![]() Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell ![]()
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