Swamplandia!

New York Times Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist

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 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.

Author: Karen Russell
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 07/26/2011
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.10w x 1.20d
ISBN13: 9780307276681
ISBN10: 0307276686
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Women
- Fiction | Coming of Age

About the Author

Karen Russell, a native of Miami, won the 2012 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, Swamplandia! (2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2012 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She lives in Philadelphia.