Swamplandia! (Vintage Contemporaries Ser.)

By: Karen Russell

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Synopsis: 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 TimesThirteen-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.

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