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    A Study Guide for Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"
    A Study Guide for Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"
    A Study Guide for Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"
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    A Study Guide for Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"

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    A Study Guide for Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Short Stories for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 13, 2018
    ISBN9781535868150
    A Study Guide for Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves"

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      A Study Guide for Karen Russell's "St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves" - Gale

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      St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

      Karen Russell

      2006

      Introduction

      Karen Russell's short story St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves appeared in 2006 in the collection by the same name. Like much of Russell's work, the tale is an example of magic realism, blending the world that readers would recognize with fantastic elements. In this case, it is the existence of werewolves whose wolf genes skip each generation.

      In this story, Russell explores the themes of family, identity, and assimilation. As the children of wolves learn to live in the human world, they begin to lose their wolf identities as well as their familial bond. They take on the traits of humans in the attempt to become civilized, but they show little humanity to one another.

      Author Biography

      Russell was born on July 10, 1981, in Miami, Florida. Early on, she developed what became a lifelong love of reading and grew up reading classics, fantasy, and science fiction. In her interview with Jennifer Knox of the New Yorker, she notes that science fiction had the most significant impact on her work. Russell attended Northwestern University and graduated in 2003 with a BA in Spanish before attending Columbia University, where she earned an MFA in 2006.

      Russell began publishing short stories in magazines while she was still a student at college. She published her collection of short stories St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves in 2006, the same year she graduated from Columbia. Russell developed a reputation for blending fantastical elements with psychological realism to construct wildly imaginative settings and characters in tales of transformation and redemption, as her brief biography at the MacArthur Foundation website notes. Her unique style is why she was named to the New Yorker's 20 Under 40 list

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