Swamplandia is a story mainly focused on the story of two children on their way to becoming adults, a coming of age story (rather cliche I know) but this story, if anything, is nothing but cliche. It is heart wrenching, and witty, cold and happy, with a twist of disturbing proportions to top it off.
it focuses on two of the three Bigtree children, running an alligator theme park on an island away from the mainland, away from the world of darkness as it is more commonly known. As Ava, one of the main characters, copes with a sister who can see ghosts (or thinks so) an the other main character, her brother, who has run away to get money for the family, all with a mysterious ( and alarming ) character known as the bird man twisting in and out of the text.
Through the families twists and turns, secrets are exposed
Secrets
are
dangerous
Secrets
That should never be told
but it leaves us to wonder, what would happen if there were no secrets at all - would we be content, no, everyone needs, a little privacy now and again, the question remains, how much is too much?
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