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The Swimmers
A General Fiction Novel by Julie Otsuka
Subgenres:
- Literary Fiction,
- Family Drama,
- Japanese American Incarceration
This book is for you if you're into...
- Stories where a swimming pool becomes a lifeline and refuge
- Intimate portraits of dementia and mother-daughter distance
- Narratives weaving personal memory with Japanese American history
From the award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that unfolds into a powerful story of a mother’s dementia and her daughter’s love.
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.
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