The Bog Girl

Karen Russell The New Yorker 06/20/16 2016

ShortStory 7,215 words Recommended by 1 award/anthology source

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Fifteen-year-old Cillian finds the love of his life buried in the peat of an old bog where she died long, long, ago.

Magical Realism Mortality Whimsical

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Family Motherhood Darkly Comic Contemporary Fantasy Tender Lyrical Prose Wry Memory Literary Contemporary Close Third Person Fantasy Identity Voice Driven

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