The Sticksels have met every Homestead Act requirement save one, its final strangeness, what Pa calls the wink in the bureaucrats’ wall: a glass window.
Karen Russell
The Sticksels have met every Homestead Act requirement save one, its final strangeness, what Pa calls the wink in the bureaucrats’ wall: a glass window.
Karen Russell (born July 10, 1981) is an American novelist and short story writer. Her debut novel, Swamplandia!, was a finalist for the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. In 2009 the National Book Foundation named Russell a 5 under 35 honoree. She was also the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation "Genius Grant" in 2013.
