Amazingly well-written, imaginative and original short stories by a very talented writer... I bought this book just before I left home for the first time, to remind me of my hometown in Florida (all of the stories are set in Florida). It was quite enjoyable... I'm tempted to keep it for myself, but I know I should allow someone else the enjoyment of reading it.

My favorite story: "Z.Z.'s Sleep-Away Camp for Disordered Dreamers".

"A dazzling debut, a blazingly original voice: the ten stories in St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves introduce a radiant new talent... Russell's stories are beautifully written and exuberantly imagined, but it is the emotional precision behind their wondrous surfaces that makes them unforgettable. Magically, from the spiritual wilderness and ghostly swamps of the Florida Everglades, against a backdrop of ancient lizards and disconcertingly lush plant life--in an idiom that is as arrestingly lovely as it is surreal-- Karen Russell shows us who we are and how we live."