Russell has published excellent short story collections since her 2011 debut novel Swamplandia!, but this is her first novel ...

M. P. Kennedy on a performance of Heinrich Biber’s “Rosary Sonatas” at Pomona College.

Her tall tales of alligator wrestlers in Florida, homesteaders on the Gothic Great Plains and female ... Dell lives with her uncle, Harp, whose farm is mysteriously untouched by the all-enveloping ...