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We puddled up the yellow carpet of old newspapers. But later, when we returned to the bedroom, we were dismayed to find all trace of the pack musk had vanished. We sprayed and sprayed every morning; and every night, we returned to the same ammonium eradication. We couldn't make our scent stick here; it made us feel invisible. Still, the pack seemed to be adjusting on the same timetable.

(It took me a long time to say anything; first I had to translate it in my head from the Wolf.) It wasn't fair. They knew Mirabella couldn't make bread balls yet. She couldn't even undo the twist tie of the bag. She was sure to eat the birds; Mirabella didn't even try to curb her desire to kill things--and then who would get blamed for the dark spots of duck blood on our Peter Pan collars? Who would get penalized with negative Skill Points? We tore through the austere rooms, overturning dresser drawers, pawing through the neat piles of the Stage 3 girls' starched underwear, smashing light bulbs with our bare fists.

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The theme being that change does not come without sacrifice. Again, this doesn’t necessarily speaks poorly of Russell. But learning writing and reading comprehension are different skills, and many writers don’t get great until they’re older for that reason. Russell was at this time the model student of writing, one that other students could aspire to. But reading her work gets exhausting to me, personally, which is probably a bad sign given how much I love magic realism.

What you get are evocative mindscapes, forays into an imaginative other world. I like that type of story, but until I read this book, I had never read such imaginative fiction by someone with an utter disregard for STORY. Again, these are like zen gardens of oddness, capturing ESSENCES and evoking IMPRESSIONS.

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"Every sister grab a brother!" She switched on Clyde's industrial flashlight, struggling beneath its weight, and aimed the beam in the center of the room. I ignored her and continued down the hall. I only had four more hours to perfect the Sausalito. By that stage, I was no longer certain how the pack felt about anything. Before I could answer, Mirabella sprang out of the hall closet and snapped through Jeanette's homework binder. Pages and pages of words swirled around the stone corridor, like dead leaves off trees.

Another aspect of the stories I found myself enjoying was the would sometimes border on being perverse or shocking but never actually cross the line. This created a nice creepy undercurrent to some of the stories, which would have been destroyed if she had allowed herself to write more explicitly. Again this is a very good thing, and her being a young writer it's nice to see that she just take the relatively easy way of being shocking because she can. They are standing back, letting them behave like young pups, to get accustomed to their surroundings. It is rather ominous, however, in all that is supposed to be "new, exciting and interesting" that they are creating lassos and carrying tranqulizer guns.

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They all carry a reserve that makes it hard for me to feel for them, and the narrators' voices, too, have a sameness to them. Finally, I often have trouble figuring out where my own stories should end, so I hate to throw stones, but many of these stories feel incomplete. At no other time are you as much a product of your environment as you are in childhood, and adolescence is when you first emerge from it — in a case of adapt or perish. There is 12-year-old Ava who takes watch of her family’s gator theme park and her older sister’s sexual awakening. At a sleep-away camp for disordered dreamers, young Elijah spends his muggy summer foretelling disasters that he was unaware have already happened, such as Mount Vesuvius and the Bubonic Plague. And in the title story, Claudette and her lupine-reared schoolmates learn the finer points of human posture and manners from Sister Maria de la Guardia.

She is neither manly enough to gain the attention of her father nor womanly enough to attain the respect of her mother. Her dilemma of not being able to fit in is emphasized by Cofer’s use of imagery and repetition. There are 10 stories in this collection, one of which ("Ava Wrestles the Alligator") was the inspiration for her first novel, Swamplandia! There were parts I liked in many of the stories, and some of them will stick with me. But I confess that I made it thru 6 of them and then found I had a real negative desire to pick the book up again.

That specifically makes her different from both Mirabella and Jeanette as they both are either adapting well or not at all. This also makes her the most relatable character as she resides in the middle of being perfect and staying close to her origins. She has her own ways of learning to grapple with adapting to a whole new environment. Granted this was the Karen Russell book I remembered liking the least, but I still remembered LIKING the collection as a whole. Even though the first two stories are REALLY good, the others range from kind of ok to absolute TRASH. This only makes me worried when I do a reread of "Swamplandia!" this year.

This work may be stressful and students may experience a strong sense of dislocation. They may spend a lot of time daydreaming during this period. Many students feel isolated, irritated, bewildered, depressed, or generally uncomfortable. We'd arrived at St. Lucy's that morning, part of a pack fifteen-strong. We were accompanied by a mousy, nervous-smelling social worker; the baby-faced deacon; Bartholomew the blue wolfhound; and four burly woodsmen. The deacon handed out some stale cupcakes and said a quick prayer.

I was about to lose all my Skill Points, I was about to fail my Adaptive Dancing test. But before the air could burst from my lungs, the wind got knocked out of me. I fell to the ground, my skirt falling softly over my head. Mirabella had intercepted my eye-cry for help.

But Karen Russell has been getting a lot of attention lately, so I finally picked this up, and I was immediately drawn in. And the stories are funny and touching and—how rare is this in modern short stories? Even so, by the middle of the collection I'd OD'd on quirky stories told from the point of view of children, and had to take a break from this book. Fortunately, when I felt ready to return to it I enjoyed the second half just as much as the first. Really glad I read this; looking forward to reading her newer collection, which I've heard is even better. In these ten glittering short stories, debut author Karen Russell takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades.

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As a result of that, the nuns from St Lucy take them away from what they know to teach them what they need to know about being human. The three girls go about different ways to develop and grapple with new obstacles as they learn to adapt to their new environment and learn to reshape their lives to become more civilized. The author is a good writer with an even better imagination, there’s no doubt that these are good concepts. But with most of the stories, I feel like she got lazy, and this was a collection of story ideas she never took to fruition, instead of meaning to be half finished.