Swamplandia! [SEP] narrative location
Swamplandia!
Swamplandia! is a 2011 novel by Karen Russell. Set in the Ten Thousand Islands, off the southwest coast of Florida, it is the story of the Bigtree family of alligator wrestlers who live on Swamplandia!, an alligator-wrestling theme park. "Swamplandia!" is Russell's first novel. The book originated as a short story, titled "Ava Wrestles the Alligator", published in the Summer 2006 issue of the literary magazine "", when Russell was 24 years old.
Plot.
Swamplandia! is a shabby tourist attraction on a swamp.
Another feature of Russell's style noted by critics is the difference between Ava's (first person) and Kiwi's (third person) narrative:
While Ava's narrative provides the fantastical and nightmarish backdrop to the novel, Kiwi's point of view is "all naïve practicality" according to Paul Di Filippo's review and provides the more 'grounded' nightmares similar to those experienced in mundane day-to-day life. His narrative also provides much of