Swamplandia by karen russell6/8/2023 Her younger sister teams up with this scary bird monster-type man to rescue her from the Underworld. “I’m like, well, one girl falls in love with a ghost. “Try telling people you’re writing about a scary bird monster,” Russell says, laughing uproariously. Then there were the skeptical-but-supportive “oooh-er-umms” of friends who made the mistake of asking what her novel-in-progress was about. “You have to have a solid bedrock to grow your crazy out of. “At one point,” the 29-year-old Russell recalls during a laughter-filled call to her “tiny, dirty apartment” in Manhattan, her dad asked her, “Why don’t you write a love story? Set on a boat? During wartime? People like those things!” When Karen Russell was “lost in the swamp” of composing Swamplandia!-her outlandish and haunting first novel about the Bigtree family of Florida alligator country -a host of solicitous friends and relatives offered her well-meaning advice.
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