![]() ![]() The titular story opens the collection with a sobering yet touching account of an aging vampire who desperately seeks to be free of the constraints that he himself has placed on him. It perhaps is her strongest work to date, as the uniform quality of the stories make it difficult to select a single "strongest" story, while maybe only one or two are even slightly lesser in quality. Within them, reality and fantasy blend together to create fictions that sometimes are surreal but always deeply personal in scope. These are some of the stories that appear in Karen Russell's just-released second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove. ![]() Mysterious seagulls and a vulnerable young boy. American Presidents in a pastoral afterlife. Japanese women trapped in a silk factory begin to morph into a human-silkworm hybrid. 12 e-book)Ī vampire couple fighting their centuries-long addiction to blood. It's only these lemons that give us any relief. ![]() We went thirsty in every region of the globe before finding our oasis here, in the blue boot of Italy, at this dead nun's lemonade stand. We spent our honeymoon hopping continents, hunting liquid chimeras: mint tea in Fez, coconut slurries in Oahu, jet-black coffee in Bogotá, jackal's milk in Dakar, Cherry Coke floats in rural Alabama, a thousand beverages purported to have magical quenching properties. We have lived everywhere: Tunis, Laos, Cincinnati, Salamanca. Over the years, Magreb and I have tried everything – fangs in apples, fangs in rubber balls. ![]()
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