Orange World and Other Stories is the new collection of short stories by Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! Russell is such an original writer with a fantastic imagination, she gets the reader to suspend their disbelief and follow her into previously inconceivable worlds.

Whether she is writing about young women during the depression spending an evening dancing with young men who don’t know they’re dead, or a boy who falls in love with a 2000 year old girl found in the bog, you can always expect the unexpected from Russell. I liked some of the stories much better than others, but overall its a great collection.