Vampires in the Lemon Grove, by Karen Russell
by Jackie Reitzes
…, established her as one of the most exciting new writers to watch. In her latest collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove (Knopf), Russell traffics in her now-trademark wit. In eight tightly drawn stories, she imagines fantastical worlds that stem from the bleakest realities: Japanese women- turned-factory silkworms who menstruate fabric; Rutherford B. Hayes reincarnated as a stable horse; a young boy on the nineteenth-century frontier stuck in a…