Ava Wrestles the Alligator by Karen Russell

From her debut collection, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, a story about a family making their living wrestling alligators. This story takes on a life of its own in Karen Russell's forthcoming novel, Swamplandia!, of which Stephen King raves, "Brilliant, funny, original, also creepy and sinister...This book will not leave my mind."