It focuses on Ava, Osceola, Kiwi, and Chief Bigtree.
Dennis Pelkis teaches a character to fly a plane in this novel, in which that character saves Emily Barton's life and is nicknamed "Hell's Angel" while working at the World of Darkness. One character in it learns of the Dredgeman's Revelation after reading The Spiritist's Telegraph and communicating with the deceased Louis Thanksgiving. The Bird Man pretends to help but then rapes the narrator, whose family practices Carnival (*) Darwinism after their mother Hilola dies of cancer. Along with Train Dreams and The Pale King, this finalist failed to win the 2012 Pulitzer Prize. It focuses on Ava, Osceola, Kiwi, and Chief Bigtree. For 10 points, name this 2011 novel by Karen Russell about a family that runs a bankrupt alligator-wrestling theme park in the Florida Everglades.
Dennis Pelkis teaches a character to fly a plane in this novel, in which that character saves Emily Barton's life and is nicknamed "Hell's Angel" while working at the World of Darkness.
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