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Swamplandia!

Swamplandia!

Author(s): Karen Russell

Location(s): Everglades

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Modern

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Swamplandia! is the one-of-a-kind tale of Ava Bigtree and her family’s gator-wrestling theme park in the Everglades. When Ava’s mom, the park’s headlining attraction, passes away, the family struggles to keep the park open and out of the hands of the World of Darkness, their competitor. Ava relies on her resourcefulness to keep the quirky family together as her sister falls in love with the Dredgeman (who may or may not be a ghost) and her brother defects to the competition’s hands.(Fodors,com)

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Set in an Alligator filled theme park in the swamplands of the Florida Everglades, this is a portrait of a family and of Ava, its main star, trying to recover after the death of...

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