NPR wrote "Orange World is a thing of beauty, a stunning collection from one of the most brilliant literary minds of her generation." The
Los Angeles Review of Books said "Russell’s writing is at times overly lush, like the rich landscapes she describes. But even at its most profligate, her ability to give weird and creepy shape to what might otherwise remain dark corners of the human
psyche is refreshing. Orange World and Other Stories is a collection hovering on the threshold between
horror and comedy, between the phantasmagoric and the fleshly."
The New York Times wrote "For all their wildness, the stories in “Orange World” are fundamentally tame. Little happens in them that wouldn’t ultimately be palatable, after a glass of
pinot gris, in the snuggest of
book groups. Not all her endings are happy ones, but love can often save the day. ==References==