{"product_id":"swamplandia-9780307276681","title":"Swamplandia!","description":"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST \u003cb\u003e- The bravely imagined, wildly acclaimed debut novel from the author of \u003ci\u003eVampires in the Lemon Grove\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eabout a thirteen year old girl who sets out on a mission through magical swamps to save her family. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ms. Russell is one in a million.... A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThirteen-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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eKAREN RUSSELL, a native of Miami, won the 2012 National Magazine Award for fiction, and her first novel, \u003ci\u003eSwamplandia! \u003c\/i\u003e(2011), was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She is a graduate of the Columbia MFA program, a 2011 Guggenheim Fellow, and a 2012 Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. She lives in Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50628800151826,"sku":"9780307276681","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c1ea6094-ca51-421e-b965-ddba413fcfdd.jpg?v=1732708155","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/swamplandia-9780307276681","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}