You’ve got to love a story that uses a funicular in the plot! This idyllic life suits Clyde, but Magreb is unhappy and wants to leave the grove.
The fruit calms the blood lust, but only for a while. Instead, they sink their fangs into the tangy pulp of the lemons that fall from the trees. Breath ripples through each of them, a tiny life in its translucent envelope.”Ī poignant love story between two vampires who live in an Italian lemon grove, this tale is narrated by the vampire Clyde, whose lover Magreb has convinced him that he doesn’t need blood to survive. “I walk beneath a chandelier of furry bodies, heartbeats wrapped in wings the color of rose petals or corn silk. Here’s a sampling of some of my favorites: Russell has a knack of taking innocuous objects-a scarecrow, a lemon, a window, a horse-and redefining them in odd and unexpected ways.
This is how I feel about Vampires in the Lemon Grove: Karen Russell is a strange and exotic alien creature who has come to our planet to tell us her stories, and having heard them, our minds have expanded and accepted new ideas of just what a short story can be. In a word: strange, unearthly, jaw-dropping, and absurdĪ friend of mine once tried to describe Cirque du Soleil to me (before I had seen it for myself), and told me it was like a group of aliens had landed on Earth and decided to put on a circus. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell
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