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From celebrated 29-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection St. Lucy's Home for women Lifted by Wolves ("How I wish they were my very own words, instead of the breakneck demon copy writer Karen Russell's.... Run for your daily life. This gal is burning," said the Los Angeles Times E book Review) comes a blazingly original debut book that takes us back again to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and presents us to Ava Bigtree, an remarkable young heroine. The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is within decrease, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme area, formerly number-one in your community, is swiftly being encroached upon by way of a fearsome and superior competition called the World of Darkness. Ava's mother, the park's indomitable headliner, has just passed on; her sister, Ossie, has fallen deeply in love with a spooky personality known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her great your government, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava's daddy, affectionately known as Main Bigtree, is AWOL; which leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to control 98 gators and the vast, inscrutable scenery of her own grief. Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund vegetation animated by old lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family's struggle to stay afloat in a global that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a captivating new voice in fiction.
