A New York Times Bestseller -- From the author of the much-heralded short-story collection St Lucys Home for Girls Raised by Wolves This blazingly original debut novel takes us to the swamps of the Florida Everglades to meet Ava Bigtree an unforgettable young heroine The Bigtree alligator-wrestling dynasty is in decline overtaken by a sophisticated competitor As her family members variously die disappear depart and defect Ava a resourceful but terrified thirteen is left to manage ninety-eight gators and the vast inscrutable landscape of her own grief
