St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves: Stories

In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here, wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns; a family makes its living wrestling alligators in a theme park; and little girls sail away on crab shells. Ava wrestles the alligator -- Haunting Olivia -- Z.Z.'s sleep-away camp for disordered dreamers -- The star-gazer's log of summer-time crime -- from Children's reminiscences of the westward migration -- Lady Yeti and the palace of artificial snows -- The city of shells -- Out to sea -- Accident brief, occurrence # 00/442 -- St. Lucy's home for girls raised by wolves