Vampires in the Lemon Grove: and Other Stories (Vintage Contemporaries)

Named a Best Book of the Year by:
The Boston Globe
O, The Oprah Magazine
Huffington Post
The A. V. Club

A Washington Post Notable Book
An NPR Great Read of 2013

From the author of the novel Swamplandia!?a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize?comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author?s gifts at their inimitable best.

Within these pages, a community of girls held captive in a Japanese silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms and plot revolution; a group of boys stumble upon a mutilated scarecrow that bears an uncanny resemblance to a missing classmate that they used to torment; a family?s disastrous quest for land in the American West has grave consequences; and in the marvelous title story, two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove try to slake their thirst for blood and come to terms with their immortal relationship.