In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author of Swamplandia takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Florida Everglades. Here wolf-like girls are reformed by nuns, a family makes their living wrestling alligators in a theme park, and little girls sail away on crab shells.
In these ten glittering stories, the award-winning, bestselling author of Swamplandia takes us to the ghostly and magical swamps of the Flo...
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 sets out on a mission through the magical swamps to save them all, we are drawn into a lush and bravely imagined debut that takes us to the...
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 Evergl...
Named a Best Book of the Year by: The Boston Globe O, The Oprah Magazine Huffington Post The A.V. Club
A Washington Post Notable Book An NPR Great Read of 2013
From the author of the novel Swamplandia --a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize--comes a magical and uniquely daring collection of stories that showcases the author's gifts at their inimitable best. Within these pages, a community of girls held captive in a Japanese silk factory slowly transmute into human silkworms and plot revolution; a group of boys stumble upon a...
Named a Best Book of the Year by: The Boston Globe O, The Oprah Magazine Huffington Post The A.V. Club
