![]() I grew up in South Florida and our family’s trips to the Everglades and to Key West probably form the literal bedrock of the Bigtrees’ strange world. I’m going to resist my inner list towards a terrible pun now (their world “sucked me in!” I was “swamped!” etc).Īnd the world of the novel really is, in kilometers, pretty close to home. Their world, “Swamplandia!” was a place I could really see in full color behind my eyelids, which doesn’t always happen. In the very first draft of this place that I wrote, Ava was a murderous boy named Hector and I believe my very wise, very kind professor actually sighed out loud after reading it and said, “Oh Karen-I just do not know what you are doing here.” And this was a bummer, because neither did I! All I knew was that, unlike my other characters, who generally left me alone after I ‘”finished” and published or abandoned a story, these Bigtrees kept rattling around inside my head. Where did you originally get the idea for this family?Ī: These folks have been around for years now-since I was 22. Q: “ Swamplandia!” is a continuation of the story of the Bigtree Wrestling Dynasty who we first met in “Ava Wrestles the Alligator”, a story that appeared in your debut story collection “St. Her new novel, SWAMPLANDIA! will be published in February 2011 by Alfred A. ![]() ![]() Karen Russell was recently chosen by The New Yorker as one of the “20 under 40” writers to watch. ![]()
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