Russell, Karen

Readers of Margaret Atwood, Emily St. John Mandel, Edan Lepucki, and Lidia Yuknavitch will appreciate Russell’s brilliant, barbed excavation of an all-too-imaginable future.

Russell's characters all experience bizarre, profound changes that leave listeners with a sense of unease and strangeness thanks to the weird and wonderful worlds she creates. Highly recommended. ["This story collection will be a welcome installment for Russell's fans and is sure to win her many new ones as well," read the review of the Knopf hc, LJ 2/15/13.—Ed.]

This story collection will be a welcome installment for Russell's fans, and is sure to win her many new ones as well.

This wildly imaginative debut novel, coming on the heels of the short story collection St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, delivers on Russell's status as one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists. A phantasmagorical tale of teens left on their own to battle their demons, mixed with a brief history of the Sunshine State, Russell's book will appeal to young adults as well as their folks. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/10.]