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The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava’s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief.
Against a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction.
- Karen Russell - Author
- Arielle Sitrick - Narrator
- David Ackroyd - Narrator
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OverDrive Listen audiobook
- ISBN: 9780307748904
- File size: 378185 KB
- Release date: February 1, 2011
- Duration: 13:07:53
MP3 audiobook
- ISBN: 9780307748904
- File size: 378231 KB
- Release date: February 1, 2011
- Duration: 13:07:53
- Number of parts: 11
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English
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Lexile® Measure:900
Text Difficulty:4-5