Swamplandia! -- Karen Russell, Paperback Mik Scriba her best friend and longtime

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Four months after a fatal car crash which killed one of her classmates and revealed just how bad her brother

Swamplandia! -- Karen Russell, Paperback Mik Scriba her best friend and longtimeNew York Times Bestseller Pulitzer Prize Finalist Ms. Russell is one in a million. . . . A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book. The New York Times 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