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“We keep giggling, happy and nervous, tickled by an incomplete innocence. We both sense that some dark joke is being played on us, even if we can't quite grasp the punch line.”

Karen Russell Ava Wrestles The Alligator

Book:St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

“i haf the sownd of more words butt i coud not remember the shaps of the letters.”

Karen Russell Ava Wrestles The Alligator

Book:St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

“He looks me to pieces … I realize now that I have been glimpsed and corner-of-the-eyed before, by the Chief and my sister and the yawning tourists. But I have never actually been looked at. Not like this.”

Looks Seeing Staring Looking Karen Russell Male Gaze Seeing People Ava Wrestles The Alligator

Book:St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

“I wish I could say I gulp pure courage as I run, like those brave little girls you read about in stories, ... But this burst of speed comes from an older adrenaline, some limbic other. Not courage, but a deeper terror. I don't want to be left alone. And I am ready to defend Ossie against whatever monster I encounter, ... and save her for myself.”

Karen Russell Ava Wrestles The Alligator

Book:St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Source: St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves