{"product_id":"book-asm1","title":"Swamplandia!","description":"From the celebrated twenty-nine-year-old author of the everywhere-heralded short-story collection \u003ci\u003eSt. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves\u003c\/i\u003e (“How I wish these were my own words, instead of the breakneck demon writer Karen Russell’s . . . Run for your life. This girl is on fire”—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e) comes a blazingly original debut novel that takes us back to the swamps of the Florida Everglades, and introduces us to Ava Bigtree, an unforgettable young heroine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline, and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, formerly #1 in the region, is swiftly being encroached upon by a fearsome and sophisticated competitor called the World of Darkness. Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, has just died; her sister, Ossie, has fallen in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, who may or may not be an actual ghost; and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, who dreams of becoming a scholar, has just defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their family business from going under. Ava’s father, affectionately known as Chief Bigtree, is AWOL; and that leaves Ava, a resourceful but terrified thirteen, to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAgainst a backdrop of hauntingly fecund plant life animated by ancient lizards and lawless hungers, Karen Russell has written an utterly singular novel about a family’s struggle to stay afloat in a world that is inexorably sinking. An arrestingly beautiful and inventive work from a vibrant new voice in fiction.","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49338889666864,"sku":"BDasm1","price":22.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/125340-asm1-Square.jpg?v=1734008049","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-asm1","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}