ISBN: 0307276686 9780307276681

Category: Fiction / Literary

Page count: 416

<b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST <b>• The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of <i>Vampires in the Lemon Grove</i><b><i>—</i>about a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. </b><i> </i></b><br><br>"Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book." —<i>The New York Times</i></b><br><br>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. <br><br>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.