"Swamplandia" by Karen Russell
From a review:
"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..."
This book begins with such a weirdly different premise, that I had hoped it would be fun, fun, fun. But... Nope. The fun part ran out and the far-from-fun parts set in.
So I'm sorry to say, I did not really enjoy the book.
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