Review: Not "Classic Karen Russell"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 9, 2014
I really enjoy reading Karen Russell.I read "Swawplandia", often marking passages to share with my wife.I enjoyed "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves". It is beautiful. The title story and the whole colection. Ditto "Vampires in the Lemon Grove". I would give any and all of those 5 Stars Plus.I enjoyed "Sleep Disorders" but it was more "SciFi" than the "mystical realism" of her earlier work. I enjoyed it, but SciFi is not my preferred genre.And the beautifully dense passages of her earlier works were lacking in "Sleep Donation".If you enjoy SciFi this is provocative.But if Russell pursues this course she will sail on without me.