Fiction. "THE WHITE SWALLOW has so many things going for it starkly memorable imagery, strangeness that feels natural to the story, the feeling that the story itself grew up from the earth like a tree, and an ending that defies moralization. It seems...
A heady, dark-hued Gothic gem of a debut novel: in nineteenth-century Bulgaria, a self-proclaimed vampire slayer -- actually, a traveling con artist -- joins forces with a teenage girl to create a monster deadly enough to vanquish their own demons....