Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
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Swamplandia!, Karen Russell
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Swamplandia!
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Karen Russell
Summary
A triumphant debut novel and follow-up to Karen Russellrsquo;s universally acclaimed short story collectionSt. Lucyrsquo;s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves. The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline-think Buddenbrooksset in the Florida Everglades-and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the World of Darkness. Ava, a resourceful but terrified twelve, must manage seventy gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother, Swamp landia!rsquo;s legendary headliner, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her brother has secretly defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their sinking family afloat; and her father, Chief Bigtree, is AWOL. To save her family, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld, a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine. Selected as one ofGrantarsquo;sBest Young American Novelists, Karen Russell is an irrepressible new voice in contemporary fiction. From the Hardcover edition
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