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Swim Back to Me

Swim Back to Me

Packer, Ann

Paperback

Series: Vintage Contemporaries

FantasyGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

ISBN10: 140007973X
ISBN13: 9781400079735
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: Apr 3 2012
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.10 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
From the bestselling author of The Dive from Clausen's Pier comes an exhilarating, searing (The Washington Post) collection of short stories framed by two unforgettable linked narratives.

With this collection, Ann Packer takes her place among today's best authors of literary fiction. --The Minneapolis Star-Tribune

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 fatherhood. And, in the masterly opening novella, two teenagers from very different families forge a sustaining friendship, only to discover the disruptive and unsettling power of sex.

Ann Packer is one of our most talented archivists of family life, with its hidden crevasses and unforeseeable perils, and in these stories she explores the moral predicaments that define our social and emotional lives, the frailty of ordinary grace, and the ways in which we are shattered and remade by loss. With Swim Back to Me, she delivers shimmering psychological precision, unfailing intelligence, and page-turning drama: her most enticing work yet.

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