Historical fiction twists into speculative horror. Sentences that begin as simple declarations leap into the figurative, landing as poems. This literary alchemy starts with the core elements, her words-nouns are wielded as verbs-and builds fractal-like as the narrative progresses.
Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves (Knopf, 2006), the real and the fantastical blend without seam. As in all of her stories since her debut, St. In one story the reader is swept off to a medieval village in Croatia plagued by corpses not content to rest in peace. In Orange World, her third, out tomorrow from Knopf, she whisks the reader through time and space-from a snowy Oregon mountain lodge during the Great Depression to a future Florida flooded by an engorged sea. And with each collection, her powers grow.
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