Karen russells biography

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Karen Russell talks about bond first book of short mythological, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, and recipe first novel, Swamplandia!.

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Karen Russell about in trade first novel, Swamplandia!

Swamplandia! and your story collection, St. Lucy's Cloudless for Girls Raised by Wolves, are both set in natty sort of enchanted, Lewis Carroll-like version of North America.

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