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The Swimmers

By Julie Otsuka

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The Swimmers

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER • From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love" (The Washington Post). The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium lane, fast lane) and the solace each takes in their morning or afternoon laps. But when a crack appears at the bottom of the pool, they are cast out into an unforgiving world without comfort or relief.   One of these swimmers is Alice, who is slowly losing her memory. For Alice, the pool was a final stand against the darkness of her encroaching dementia. Without the fellowship of other swimmers and the routine of her daily laps she is plunged into dislocation and chaos, swept into memories of her childhood and the Japanese American incarceration camp in which she spent the war. Alice's estranged daughter, reentering her mother's life too late, witnesses her stark and devastating decline.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
192
Release Date:
2023-01-24
Publication Date:
2023-01-24
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0593466624
ISBN13:
9780593466629
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
247 g
Height:
132 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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