![]() ![]() For years, Ava's mother, Hilola Bigtree, was the main Swamplandia attraction, swimming nightly through an alligator-infested pool after her death, Ava's father, the Chief, has a terrible time attracting tourists, and Swamplandia begins its decline.īecause they are so isolated and twisted with grief for their mother, Ava and her siblings - dreamy Osceola, or Ossie, and pretentious, striving Kiwi - have been molded into little oddballs who have a difficult time understanding or dealing with reality. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves." At its heart is Ava Bigtree, a 12-year-old alligator wrestler who lives with her family on a struggling reptile theme park in Florida's Ten Thousand Islands. ![]() Karen Russell's "Swamplandia!" is one such first novel, an offshoot from a story in her ecstatically received collection, "St. I love the joy in the prose, the feeling that the writer has thrown the whole circus of her heart onto the page, safety nets be damned. ![]() I'll admit it: I'm a sucker for the outrageously exuberant first novel. ![]()
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