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  Swamplandia!

  by Karen Russell

  A triumphant debut novel and follow-up to Karen Russell’s universally acclaimed short story collection "St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves." The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline — think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Everglades — and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the World of... (more)