I know this book got good reviews, probably by reviewers that know little about Florida. As a native Floridian, I just couldn't get past certain details to get into the book. The family named their daughter Oceola, the name of the greatest war chief of the Seminoles. That these characters had a g...
I LOVED the first two stories in this collection--especially "Reeling for the Empire," which is this phenomenal allegory of invisible feminized labor in globalized capitalism; it has all these great things to say about gender and species and alienation, and I want everyone to read it--but the res...
Karen Russell takes a lot of the trends that are popular in literary fiction and uses them right. Her stories are full of funny, hearbreaking, and strangely unique details without usually feeling too quirky for the sake of being quirky, and her stories weave the absurd into the every day in a way...