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A New York Times Best Book of the YearOne of Granta's Best Young American NovelistsSelected for the New Yorker's 20 Under 40Nominated for the Orange Prize Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her lifetime at Swamplandia!, her family’s area house and gator-wrestling theme-park in the Florida Everglades. Nevertheless when disease fells Ava’s mom, the park’s indomitable headliner, the household is plunged into disarray; her dad withdraws, her sister falls in deep love with a scary personality referred to as the Dredgeman, and her amazing your government, Kiwi, flaws to some competing playground named The Planet of Night. We're driven right into a rich and bravely imagined introduction, as Ava sets on a quest through the enchanting swamps to truly save all of them that requires us towards the glistening fringe of truth.