The Swimmers

book title

The Swimmers



Julie Otsuka
Published Date : 2022
Amazon

Description

From the best-selling, award-winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel about what happens to a group of obsessed recreational swimmers when a crack appears at the bottom of their local pool–a tour de force of economy, precision, and emotional power. 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. Written in spellbinding, incantatory prose, The Swimmers is a searing, intimate story of mothers and daughters, and the sorrows of implacable loss: the most commanding and unforgettable work yet from a modern master.


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word
swimmers
lane
The
pool
appears
laps
Alice
bottom
mothers
crack
unforgettable
routines
group
chaos
Without
tour
work
reentering
When
From
implacable
morning
prose
final
Japanese
medium
stand
unknown
loss
takes
Buddha
losing
local
But
modern
fast
de
best-selling
relief
fellowship
searing
Attic
dementia
stark
camp
war
incantatory
memory
master
Divine
One
economy
cast
intimate
world
Swimmers
Written
slowly
daughter
afternoon
pool–a
devastating
emotional
obsessed
power
Alices
slow
story
late
swept
spent
force
commanding
daughters
American
For
solace
precision
life
darkness
recreational
dislocation
plunged
incarceration
award-winning
comfort
daily
unforgiving
decline
encroaching
estranged
Emperor
private
spellbinding
childhood
memories
Was
routine
sorrows
author
witnesses

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