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"Stripped down, Swamplandia!, Karen Russell's debut novel, is one more young writer's saga of a dysfunctional family. But Russell is a rare talent." - Jane Ciabattari, NPRThirteen-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 sets out on a mission through the magical swamps to save them all, we are drawn into a lush and bravely imagined debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality, a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine."Ms Russell is one in a million. The proof is in Swamplandia!, a novel about alligator wrestlers, a balding brown bear named Judy Garland, a Bird Man specializing in buzzard removal, a pair of duelling Florida theme parks, rampaging melaleuca trees, a Ouija board and the dead but still flirtatious Louis Thanksgiving. Sound appealing? No, it does

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Author

Russell, Karen

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780307595447

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Science Fiction

Rating

3.8 / 5 (1,795 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14