The swimmers
Otsuka, Julie, 1962-2023
Book
Up above there are wildfires, smog alerts, epic droughts, paper jams, teachers' strikes, insurrections, revolutions, record-breaking summers of unendurable heat, but down below, at the pool, it is always a comfortable eighty-one degrees... Alice is one of a group of obsessed recreational swimmers for whom their local swimming pool has become the centre of their lives - a place of unexpected kinship, freedom, and ritual. Until one day a crack appears beneath its surface... As cracks also begin to appear in Alice's memory, her husband and daughter are faced with the dilemma of how best to care for her. As Alice clings to the tethers of her past in a Home she feels certain is not her home, her daughter must navigate the newly fractured landscape of their relationship.
Main title:
The swimmers / Julie Otsuka.
Author:
Otsuka, Julie, 1962-, author
Work:
Imprint:
[London] : Penguin Books, 2023.©2022.
Collation:
175 pages ; 20 cm.
Notes:
First published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN:
9780241994283 (paperback)
Dewey class:
813.6F
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
2287255