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Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By: Karen Russell
Narrated by: Arthur Morey, Joy Osmanski, Kaleo Griffith, Mark Bramhall, Michael Bybee, Robbie Daymond, Romy Rosemont
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On Strong Beach, an awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls’ nest. By the Hox River in Nebraska, a window fuels both family pride and deadly revenge. In a godforsaken barn in what they suspect is Kentucky, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams and Rutherford B. Hayes are bemused to find themselves reincarnated as horses. And in the collection’s title story, Clyde and Magreb – he a traditional capes-and-coffins vampire, she the more progressive variety – settle in an Italian lemon grove in the hope that its ripe fruit will keep their thirst for blood at bay.

Karen Russell is an audacious talent with a wicked sense of humour, and this hotly anticipated new collection confirms her place as a master of the short story form, and one of the most imaginative young writers at work today.

 Anthologies & Short Stories Dark Fantasy Dark Humour Fantasy Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Literature & Fiction Magical Realism Short Stories Fiction Dwight Eisenhower
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Critic reviews

Her work has a velocity and a trajectroy that is little less than dazzling and a tough, enveloping, exhilarating voice than cannot be equaled.
A consistently arresting, frequently stunning collection...Even more impressive than Russell's critically acclaimed novel.
Karen Russell’s third book, the story collection “Vampires in the Lemon Grove,” should cement her reputation as one of the most remarkable fantasists writing today (Elizabeth Hand)
Russell can take Antarctic tailgaters, an army of seagulls or simply a window and twist a tale that explodes on the page and lingers in the mind (Fiona Wilson)
A touch of paradoxically grounding pixie humour. This way of writing is so clever that nothing needs to be added to the set-up… These stories have unbelievable strength (M John Harrison)
These stories use the fantastical to make mythic sense of the human struggle, and perfectly balance light and dark, funny and serious, wacky and realistic (Suzi Feay)
Russell is practised at whimsy and the surreal, at the magical and the unnerving (Paul Laity)
Russell’s storytelling, fusing realistic and fantastic elements, is imaginative and beautifully crafted (Tina Jackson)
Wildly fun and full of suspense (Jess Holland)
These stories will win her yet more fans, and offer typically colourful, off-the-wall entertainment (Stephanie Cross)
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If you like magical realism this in the collection for you. However I like many of these stories I had issues with the endings of quite a few. The headline story Vampires in the Lemon Grove is my far the weakest.

Average short story collection

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