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Overview
A New York Times Best Book of the Year
One of Granta's Best Young American Novelists
Selected for the New Yorker's 20 Under 40
Nominated for the Orange Prize
One of Granta's Best Young American Novelists
Selected for the New Yorker's 20 Under 40
Nominated for the Orange Prize
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.
Winner of the 2012 New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award
One of the New York Times Book Review's Top 10 Books of 2011
