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review Swamplandia Swamplandia Free download ✓ 4 Free download ☆ PDF, DOC, TXT or eBook ¶ Karen Russell From the celebrated twenty nine year old author of the everywhere heralded short story collection St Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves “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” Los Angeles Times Book Review 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 heroineThe Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline and Swamplandia th. Geez Karen Russell WTFI loved the idea of Swamplandia so much The story is strange the title is awesome and the setting and characters are completely foreign to me alligators swamps ghosts a bird man Florida lots of exclamation points used with wild abandon Swamplandia woo hoo rightUnfortunately no There is no woo hoo in this book at all Russell is clearly a talented writer with a cutting sense of humor of which she shows a few hints in the beginning but this story is one that I d pay good money to have permanently erased from my memory I incorrectly interpreted the strangeness of this book to be something mystical and otherworldly like a Floridian Alice in Wonderland At first like our heroine Ava I was inspired to believe that interesting things things that defy the laws of the universe were afoot But then also like Ava and the rest of her family I was cruelly bitch slapped by the real world For poor Ava bitch slap doesn t even begin to cover it By the end Russell makes it clear that there is no magic or wonder to be found here only horribleness deceit and plain evil This is not a swampier Alice in Wonderland like a swampier version of a Stephen King novel crossed with a police blotter Everything in this book is dark and ugly At first this seems interesting and edgy but there s no payoff What s the point This book has enough symbols allegories and metaphors to fill hundreds of high school AP English papers but I still don t think it accomplishes anything other than making sure the reader is despondent about the world by the final page than they were at the outset That and perhaps convincing many to never visit Florida

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