num_pages: 256
description: Charting loss, love, and the difficult art of growing up, these stories unfurl with wicked humour and insight. Two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab; a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to 'Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers' (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Insomniacs; Cabin 3, Somnambulists...); a Minotaur leads his family on the trail out West, and finally, in the collection's poignant and hilarious title story, fifteen girls raised by wolves are painstakingly re-civilised by nuns. These ten extraordinary stories introduce an audacious new talent, and a world in which weird and wonderful predicaments magically reveal the truth of our own lives. This title presents a blazingly original voice, a dazzling debut, and a breathtaking discovery.
language: English
title: St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
titlecomplete: St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
genres: Fantasy, Adult, Contemporary, Literature, Magical Realism, Short Story Collection, Short Stories, Fiction, Literary Fiction, Adult Fiction
ratings_count: 12270
places: Florida, Everglades, Florida
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Guardian First Book Award
category: Longlist, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: James Tiptree Jr. Award
publisher: Chatto & Windus