Vampires in the Lemon Grove
Categories: Literature & Fiction
Vampires in the Lemon Grove is a 2013 collection of short stories by the American writer Karen Russell, author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Swamplandia!, published in paperback by Vintage. Its eight inventive, darkly funny tales include an aging vampire couple in an Italian lemon grove who try to quench their thirst with lemons, Japanese factory girls who turn into human silkworms, U.S. presidents reincarnated as horses, and a veteran whose tattoo changes as his memories are rewritten.
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- Margaret Atwood: “A collection of smart, deft, and unsettling tales in which our expectations of reality are challenged. Human silkworms? Vampires taking a pledge? Want your head messed with? Step this way.”