{"id":839,"date":"2011-06-24T16:47:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-24T16:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=839"},"modified":"2015-04-08T18:35:22","modified_gmt":"2015-04-08T18:35:22","slug":"swamplandia-by-karen-russell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=839","title":{"rendered":"Swamplandia! by Karen Russell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-859 size-full\" title=\"Swamplandia!\" src=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Swamplandia.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"135\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Bigtree family can no longer\u00a0continue to operate\u00a0their\u00a0aging Florida theme-park, Swamplandia!, when their mother, alligator-wrestling star Hilola Bigtree, dies.\u00a0Twelve-year-old Ava dreams of saving the park with an alligator show of her own.\u00a0 Instead, she\u00a0finds herself abandoned as each remaining member of the family drifts, one-by-one, away from the park.\u00a0\u00a0Ava&#8217;s Ouija board-obsessed sister Osceola is the last to leave, off to elope with a\u00a0boyfriend she claims is a ghost.\u00a0\u00a0Ava sets out into the swampy Everglades to rescue\u00a0Osceola in a poignant\u00a0coming-of-age journey.\u00a0 Full of compelling characters and rich descriptions of the Everglades, Swamplandia! is one of those books that stays in\u00a0the mind long after the final page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bigtree family can no longer\u00a0continue to operate\u00a0their\u00a0aging Florida theme-park, Swamplandia!, when their mother, alligator-wrestling star Hilola Bigtree, dies.\u00a0Twelve-year-old Ava dreams of saving the park with an alligator show of her own.\u00a0 Instead, she\u00a0finds herself abandoned as each remaining member of the family drifts, one-by-one, away from the park.\u00a0\u00a0Ava&#8217;s Ouija board-obsessed sister Osceola is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/?p=839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Swamplandia! by Karen Russell<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,8,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-posts","category-books-for-adults","category-fiction","category-reviewed-by-elizabeth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffpicks.eglibrary.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}