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The Dive From Clausen's Pier


A Literary Fiction Novel


Subgenres:

  • Coming-of-Age,
  • Relationship Fiction,
  • Women’s Fiction
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This book is for you if you're into...

  • Stories where loyalty and selfhood pull in opposite directions
  • Intimate Midwest settings with high emotional stakes
  • Narratives exploring moral gray areas in relationships
Publisher Description

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer's intimate and emotionally thrilling novel.

At the age of twenty-three Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing, high school sweetheart. Now to her dismay she has begun to find this life suffocating and is considering leaving it–and Mike–behind. But when Mike is paralyzed in a diving accident, leaving seems unforgivable and yet more necessary than ever.

The Dive from Clausen's Pier animates this dilemma–and Carrie's startling response to it–with the narrative assurance, exacting realism, and moral complexity we expect from the very best fiction.

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