![]() ![]() Hillola’s sudden death, at the hands of no more beastly a fate than cancer, throws the attraction into turmoil. ![]() The three Bigtree children are home-schooled and run the attraction, while their mother, Hilola Bigtree, is the star of the show. The family, descendants of Ohio coal miners, applies bronzer for family portraits and wears headdresses- their patriarch is known as “Chief”. There they wrestle alligators for ferry-loads of mainlanders and merchandise their “tribe,” which is pitch-perfectly rooted in the worst of Americana. Swamplandia! follows the Bigtrees, first seen in Russell’s short story “Ava Wrestles the Alligator,” a family who runs a tourist trap off the swampy coast of Florida. Lucy’s Home For Girls Raised By Wolves, a collection of short-stories, and Swamplandia!, a novel. Karen Russell is a young writer of great imagination. Since then, Swamplandia! was picked up by HBO and named one of the 10 best books of 2011 by the New York Times. note: Full Stop conducted this interview back in March. ![]()
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