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Vampires in the Lemon Grove

By: Karen Russell
Narrated by: Robbie Daymond, Romy Rosemont, Michael Bybee, Mark Bramhall, Kaleo Griffith, Joy Osmanski, Arthur Morey
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Summary

On Strong Beach, an awkward teen with a terrible haircut has a reversal of fortune when he finds artefacts from the future lining a seagulls’ nest. By the Hox River in Nebraska, a window fuels both family pride and deadly revenge. In a godforsaken barn in what they suspect is Kentucky, Presidents Eisenhower, John Adams, and Rutherford B. Hayes are bemused to find themselves reincarnated as horses. And in the collection’s title story, "Clyde and Magreb" - he a traditional capes-and-coffins vampire, she the more progressive variety - settle in an Italian lemon grove in the hope that its ripe fruit will keep their thirst for blood at bay.

Karen Russell is an audacious talent with a wicked sense of humour, and this hotly anticipated new collection confirms her place as a master of the short story form, and one of the most imaginative young writers at work today.

©2013 Karen Russell (P)2014 Random House Audiobooks
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Average short story collection

If you like magical realism this in the collection for you. However I like many of these stories I had issues with the endings of quite a few. The headline story Vampires in the Lemon Grove is my far the weakest.

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