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Kamonush Psai _amonush_ — It was eerie to read "Swamplandia!" It was eerie because, like Hilola Bigtree (the protagonists' mom) my real-life mom died of cancer at a young age. And then, like the Bigtrees, my family was scattered. And now, like Kiwi Bigtree, I work a less-than-awesome job in order to support my family, while I dream of going to college. "Wait!" I cried several chapters into "Swamplandia!", setting down the book in a moment of Paul Auster-like meta-crisis, "Is the main character... me?!" That's to say, I strongly identified with the well-drawn (and quirky) characters of this excellent debut novel. I felt for the Bigtree family in their struggles. This is a great thing about literature, right? To identify with characters (and, by extension, to identify with their authors and our fellow readers). This is one of the main reasons why we read books: to know that we are not little isolated islands, but instead we're part of a big archipelago of humanity, that there are other people in the world who suffer as we suffer and feel like we feel. Read "Swamplandia!" It's worth your while. **SPOILER ALERT** I just want to say that the Louis Thanksgiving section of the book was particularly good. The writing and the characters seemed to come from a more mature Karen Russell than the Karen Russell who penned "St. Lucy's". Characters died horrifically. There was heavy machinery, a fire, domestic abuse, and economic blight. Russell's southern gothic streak really shone though in "The Dredgeman's Revelation". It's a step up from writing about, say, a giant combination light bulb/hot air balloon ("Z.Z.'s Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Sleepers") or about fluorescent sea dinosaurs ("Haunting Olivia"). Less cutesy wordplay + the Great Depression + the Everglades = WOW! Keep it up, K.R.! (In several interviews Ms. Russell has alluded to the fact that her next novel is going to be set in the Dust Bowl. I hope that it is. I hope that it's gritty and tough. I hope that it is on par with the Louis Thanksgiving section.)**END SPOILER ALERT** I tell you again, reader: read "Swamplandia!". It may not live up to all the hype that surrounds it like a cloud of Floridian mosquitoes, but it's a damned beautiful book all the same.

Duvan Jimenez _uvan_jz8 — I read this book after seeing the movie and as much as I love the movie, I love the book even more. The book has a few more major characters and plot developments that are note even touched in the movie. I have read many books by Maeve Binchy and Circle of Friends seems like her best developed story. The rest start to seem a little too much like romance novels for my taste (not that romance novels aren't good when you want one!) This story follows Benny Hogan and her friend Eve as they head to University in Dublin from their small village, Knockglen around 1950. Once at university, they discover a world of new friends, mainly a lot of cute Rugby playing lads and it becomes harder and harder for them to relate to what is happening in the village at home as they find their first loves. Wow, what a lot of cheese I just wrote!

Eduardo Nuzzi edunuzzi — So happy I finally got around to reading this book!