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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 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 embarks on her mission to save them all, we are drawn into a lush debut that takes us to the shimmering edge of reality.
Author: Karen Russell
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 7/26/2011
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.6 lbs
Size: 8.2″ H x 5.1″ L x 1.2″ W
ISBN: 9780307276681
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