Orange World And Other Stories

"Karen Russell’s latest short story collection features a boy who falls in love with a 2,000-year-old dead girl, a young woman possessed by a Joshua tree and a mother coerced into breastfeeding the devil – needless to say, literary realism this is not. Russell’s stories aren’t like anything you’ve ever read before; there’s no doubt at all that she is one of the most original American authors working today. She’s also one of the best."