![]() ![]() Karen Russell, one of the New Yorker's 20 best writers under 40, is certainly very talented. Grandpa Sawtooth has been dispatched to the Out to Sea Retirement Community. Kiwi, their older brother, leaves the island on a postmodern quest for the riches that will save Swamplandia! (He ends up working as a cleaner in the World of Darkness, known to its employees simply as "the World".) The chief, their father, who often wears a feather headdress, departs on one of his mysterious three-week trips to the mainland. Sixteen-year-old Osceola, also known as Ossie, finds a book called the "Spiritist's Handbook" on the abandoned Library Boat and soon starts going on dates, and possibly having sex, with a number of ghosts. ![]() ![]() While our plucky 13-year-old narrator, Ava Bigtree, practises her alligator holds, the rest of the family goes into meltdown. ![]()
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