Its hard to know how to define Karen Russells writing; is it fantastical realism?
Her stories spill over with ghosts and devils, lost souls and dark magic.
But theyre too feral and deeply textured to file under something as simple or straightforward as fantasy.
Credit: Knopf
Theres hardly a traceable through-line inOrange World, other than a constant foreboding sense of the surreal.
