The Orange Eats Creeps

Description

• National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree — 2010.
• A Best Book of 2010 –NPR, Amazon, Shelf Unbound
• The Believer Book Award, Finalist
• Indie Bookseller’s Choice Awards, Finalist

“Krilanovich’s work will make you believe that new ways of storytelling are still emerging from the margins.”
–Rachel Syme, NPR

A girl with drug-induced ESP and an eerie connection to Patty Reed (a young member of the Donner Party who credited her survival to her relationship with a hidden wooden doll), searches for her disappeared foster sister along “The Highway That Eats People,” stalked by a conflation of Twin Peaks‘ “Bob” and the Green River Killer, known as Dactyl.

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Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Grace Krilanovich, Steve Erickson (Introduction by), Laura Van Den Berg (Afterword by)
Published: 01/21/2025
Publisher: Two Dollar Radio
ISBN: 9781953387509
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 0.60″ H x 7.40″ L x 5.50″ W

About the Author
Krilanovich, Grace: –

Grace Krilanovich is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts, where she received her MFA. She has been a finalist for the Starcherone Prize, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, published in Black Clock, and a fellow of the MacDowell Colony. Her first book, The Orange Eats Creeps was an instant cult classic upon its release in 2010.

Erickson, Steve: –

Steve Erickson is the author of eight novels: Days Between Stations (1985), Rubicon Beach (1986), Tours of the Black Clock (1989), Arc d’X (1993), Amnesiascope (1996), The Sea Came in at Midnight (1999), Our Ecstatic Days (2005) and Zeroville (2007).

Van Den Berg, Laura: – Laura van den Berg (Afterword) was born and raised in Florida. She is the author of five works of fiction, including State of Paradise, The Third Hotel, and I Hold a Wolf by the Ears. She is the recent recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Strauss Living Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters, and a literature fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.