Swamplandia! by Karen Russellis a 400-page softcover published by Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc. New York. This copy is the stated first Vintage Books edition of July 2011. The condition is excellent, with no evidence of use.
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 shimmering edge of reality.
ISBN: 978-0-307-27668-1
