Karen Russell
“Bewitching…a
tremendous achievement.”
-Entertainment Weekly
The accolades for this debut novel catapulted it to the top of bestseller lists from coast to coast. Recipient of the National Book Foundation’s 5 Under 35 Award; featured in The New Yorker’s list of “20 under 40 Authors to Watch”; nominated for the Orange Prize, Karen Russell’s stellar talent leaves others breathless in her wake. Swamplandia! is a rundown tourist attraction in the Everglades of Florida, owned by a clan of alligator wrestlers. To reveal more would be to rob the reader of the experience of getting to know the BigTree family, each of them vivid and exuberantly rendered characters set in an equally vivid and exuberant story. With wit and intelligence and heartfelt emotion, Karen Russell has created a brilliantly unique story. She is writer-in-residence at Bard College in upstate New York.
