St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

I chose this book because I had heard good reviews about it, but I bought it without realizing that it was short stories.  Typically I do not like books comprised of short stories and sadly this collection reinforced that dislike.

The stories were a bit obscure, but more importantly they weren't complete.  They apparently needed to be a little bit longer so that they had an ending.  Yet, the author may just be setting herself up so that she can take all the stories and create novels from them (which is what she did for her novel Swamplandia).

I was really looking forward to reading Swamplandia, as I also heard great things about it, but now I'm a little hesitant.