"This book includes a story told from the point of view of Rutherford B. Hayes about a barn where former American presidents are reincarnated as horses. Meiji-era girls are trafficked to a silk factory where they are slowly transformed into giant silk worms. A group of high school students in a benighted corner of New Jersey find a scarecrow that resembles a missing classmate. Take this home, find a quiet spot, and emerge a couple hours later to frighten your housemates with your saucer eyes and thousand-yard stare."
Publisher Vintage
Publication Date 2014-01-14
Section New Titles - Paperback / Fiction / All Staff Suggestions / Fiction Suggestions / Rachel S.
Format Paperback
ISBN 9780307947475
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.
