Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...

In her first novel in 14 years, the author combines real-life historical events with a dose of magical thinking.

The bestselling author of "Swamplandia!" and "Vampires in the Lemon Grove" returns with a Nebraska Dust Bowl-era tale of a ...

No one summons up the "old weird America" in fiction like Karen Russell does. Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on the Gothic Great Plains and female prospectors ...

but this is her first novel in nearly 15 years.... No one summons up the "old weird America" in fiction like Karen Russell does. Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on ...