St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

library binding, 246 pages

Published Aug. 14, 2007 by Perfection Learning.

ISBN:
978-1-62765-578-1
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Review of "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" on 'Goodreads'

These stories are all beautifully written and a bit harrowing, but almost all of them are also unresolved: they set up a very interesting world and story and then leave you wondering what will happen. Many of them involve characters trapped or stranded somewhere and awaiting rescue. They're almost more like vignettes or tableaux than short stories per se. Whether it's because the names, characters and worlds are so intriguingly sketched out with so few words, or because of the unresolved nature of the stories, I have the feeling I'll continue to ponder many of them. My favorite was City of Shells.

Review of "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" on Goodreads

1) "My sister and I are staying in Grandpa Sawtooth's old house until our father, Chief Bigtree, gets back from the Mainland. It's our first summer alone in the swamp. 'You girls will be fine,' the Chief slurred. 'Feed the gators, don't talk to strangers. Lock the door at night.' The Chief must have forgotten that it's a screen door at Grandpa's---there is no key, no lock. The old house is a rust-checkered yellow bungalow at the edge of the wild bird estuary. It has a single, airless room; three crude, palmetto windows, with mosquito-blackened sills; a tin roof that hums with the memory of rain. I love it here. Whenever the wind gusts in off the river, the sky rains leaves and feathers."

2) "It seems to me that nobody's asking the hard questions here. For example, what if ghost-Olivia doesn't have eyes anymore? Or a nose? What if …

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