They’ve spent the last five years on the prairie, trying to set up some kind of home, trying to grow some wheat in the dry fields. When the story begins, it’s a big day for Miles, our eleven-year-old narrator, and his family. It’s a haunting (literally) look back at the earliest, brutal days of settling Nebraska under the Homestead Act, suggestive of the cost in humanity and sanity. 3 as “The Hox River Window.”Īfter not particularly liking the prior two stories in this collection (indeed, after thinking one was the worst story I’ve read in some time), “Proving Up” reminded me why I admire Karen Russell. For an overview with links to reviews of the other stories in this collection, please click here. “Proving Up” was originally published in Zoetrope, Vol. “Proving Up” is the fourth story in Karen Russell’s second short story collection, Vampires in the Lemon Grove.
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