Society is made up of a transient stream of tourists brought in by ferry. Schooling consists of filching old books from an abandoned library boat. Hilola dazzles tourists nightly by diving into a lagoon full of alligators, and the children are free to run amok when they aren’t busy with chores around the park. Masquerading as Indians in buckskin on highway billboards, they are the proprietors of Swamplandia!, an alligator theme park located on their private island in the Everglades. Until her mother Hilola’s death from cancer, Ava and the Bigtree clan lead a charmed existence of make-believe. Vintage Contemporaries, 397 pages.Īva Bigtree, 13-year-old apprentice alligator wrestler, is the chief storyteller of this wondrous book of the dead.
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