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    Karen Russell Proves She's A True Original With 'Orange World'

    Russell's new story collection encompasses everything from a boy in love with a bog body to a woman trying to get out of a bargain with the devil — it's unlike anything you've ever read before.
    by Michael Schaub May 15, 2019 3 minutes
    Source: Beth Novey

    Cillian Eddowis, the 15-year-old protagonist of Karen Russell's short story "Bog Girl: A Romance," has a crush. No surprise there: There's a certain kind of teenager who's prone to fall in love hard and fast, and sweet, sensitive Cillian — whose aunts "had paid him the modern compliment of assuming that he was gay" — is definitely that type.

    There's only one problem with the object of Cillian's affection: She's 2,000 years old, and is not, in the technical sense

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