{"product_id":"swamplandia","title":"Swamplandia! by Karen Russell","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Bigtree alligator wrestling dynasty is in decline—think Buddenbrooks set in the Florida Everglades—and Swamplandia!, their island home and gator-wrestling theme park, is swiftly being encroached upon by a sophisticated competitor known as the \"World of Darkness.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAva, a resourceful but terrified twelve-year-old, must manage seventy gators and the vast, inscrutable landscape of her own grief. Her mother, Swamplandia!’s legendary headliner, has just died; her sister is having an affair with a ghost called the Dredgeman; her brother has secretly defected to the World of Darkness in a last-ditch effort to keep their sinking family afloat; and her father, Chief Bigtree, is AWOL. To save her family, Ava must journey on her own to a perilous part of the swamp called the \"Underworld,\" a harrowing odyssey from which she emerges a true heroine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Book Club","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52776317354301,"sku":"9780099555834","price":12.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/3135\/9805\/files\/9780099555834.jpg?v=1785543021","url":"https:\/\/bookclub.org.nz\/products\/swamplandia","provider":"Book Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}