Rent Swim Back to Me: Stories

Synopsis

From the best-selling author of Songs Without Words and The Dive from Clausen's Pier, her strongest work yet—a collection of burnished, impossible-to-put down narratives framed by two stunning, linked novellas.

A wife struggles to make sense of her husband's sudden disappearance. A mother mourns her teenage son through the music collection he left behind. A woman shepherds her estranged parents through her brother's wedding and reflects on the year her family collapsed. A young man comes to grips with the joy—and vulnerability—of impending fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families—one a tightly knit foursome, the other a father and son who share little more than having been abandoned by the same woman—forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.

Swim Back to Me showcases one of our most vibrant talents at the height of her powers—a book that belongs beside Elizabeth Strout's Olive Kitteridge and Amy Bloom's Where the God of Love Hangs Out.


From the Hardcover edition.

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