![]() ![]() Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, written while completing her MFA at Columbia University. Her experience growing up in South Florida, as well as the impact her readings had on her as a child and adolescent, have translated into the creation of a unique landscape and of the characters that we find in several of her works, including her novel Swamplandia (2011) her collection Vampires in the Lemon Grove (2013) and Russell’s debut story collection, St. ![]() ![]() Russell cites among some of her literary influences Franz Kafka, Gabriel García Márquez, Joy Williams, and George Saunders, authors who wove facts from their unique realities with extraordinary happenings. The constant flux of peoples from different backgrounds and origins and the dialogue between cultural values and traditions, became –during her childhood and adolescence– a window to a world in which there were things that lacked any reasonable explanation. She replied by referring to a “matter –of– fact strangeness” that her native state seems to possess. In an interview for The Missouri Review (2013), fiction author Karen Russell was asked about her life in Florida and how it has influenced several of her works. Knopff, 2006) Reviewed by Leonora Simonovis Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell (Alfred A. ![]()
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