num_pages: 418
description: The Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in declinethink Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Evergladesand Swamplandia! their island home and gator-wrestling theme park is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the World of Darkness. Ava a resourceful but terrified twelve-year-old must manage seventy gators and the vast inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother Swamplandia!s legendary headliner has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her brother has secretly defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their sinking family afloat; and her father Chief Bigtree is AWOL. To save her family Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the Underworld a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine.
language: English
title: Swamplandia!
publisher: 418