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There are some books that give you both a gut punch and a heartache at the same time. This is one of those. Karen Russell is one of my favorite authors, and this year I have read three of her books. She has a wild, weird way of dissecting the world through the wild, weird microcosm of Florida. She creatively uses point of view in Swamplandia!, giving us the first-person voice of Ava Bigtree while casting other point-of-view characters in third person narration. This allows the reader to ache and hope and fail and succeed with Ava, our hearts breaking with each step. Oh, and did I mention--this is one hilarious book.
New York Times Bestseller | Pulitzer Prize Finalist
"Ms. Russell is one in a million. . . . A suspensfuly, deeply haunted book."--The New York Times
Thirteen-year-old Ava Bigtree has lived her entire life at Swamplandia!, her family’s island home and gator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades. But when illness fells Ava’s mother, the park’s indomitable headliner, the family is plunged into chaos; her father withdraws, her sister falls in love with a spooky character known as the Dredgeman, and her brilliant big brother, Kiwi, defects to a rival park called The World of Darkness.
Magical realism meets the magic of Christmas in this mix of Jewish, New Testament, and Santa stories–all reenacted in an urban psychiatric hospital!
On locked ward 5C4, Josh, a patient with many similarities to Jesus, is hospitalized concurrently with Nick, a patient with many similarities to Santa. The two argue…
The way it shifts between radically different styles, while retaining a unique Joycean flavour. It provides some of the best displays of the first-person experience of being an actual human being going about their day, with all their idiosyncrasies, irrationalities, imaginations, misunderstandings, etc. And its endlessly analysable, full of word play, allusions, philosophical and psychological insights, beautifully lyrical language, etc.
James Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses, tells of the diverse events which befall Leopold Bloom and Stephen Dedalus in Dublin on one day in June 1904. It is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature and was hailed as a work of genius by W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and Ernest Hemingway. Scandalously frank, wittily erudite, mercurially eloquent, resourcefully comic and generously humane, Ulysses offers the reader a life-changing experience
