After more than 30 years of publishing in her native Russia, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya caught American eyes with a macabre, delightful collection of “scary fairy tales” titled There Once Lived A Woman Who Tried To Kill Her Neighbor’s Baby. Petrushevskaya’s stories in her new collection, There Once Lived A Girl Who Seduced Her Sister’s Husband, And He Hanged Himself: Love Stories, combine the brevity of Lydia Davis with the familial strangleholds of Chekhov. They’re short and brutal, but often elegant in their economy.
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