Swamplandia!
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2.9 • 7 Ratings
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- $6.99
Publisher Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of Vampires in the Lemon Grove—about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family.
"Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —The New York Times
Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness.
As Ava embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
From its very first sentence, Karen Russell’s debut novel drags us into the haunted, surreal, and beautiful world of Swamplandia, a gator-centric theme park off the Florida coast. Ava Bigtree has lived there for her first 13 years, but now, with the park failing and her family falling apart, Ava and her sister, Osceola, find themselves on their own in peculiar and wondrous new circumstances. Russell’s exquisite prose subtly incorporates touches of magic realism, giving her book the queasy edge of a fever dream. Swamplandia! is a rich, strange, and unforgettable read.
