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Random House
April 2011
On Sale: April 5, 2011
240 pages
ISBN: 1400044049
EAN: 9781400044047
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Women's Fiction
From Ann Packer, author of the New York Times best-selling
novels The Dive from Clausen’s Pier and Songs Without Words,
a collection of burnished, emotionally searing stories,
framed by two unforgettable linked narratives that express
the transformation of a single family over the course of a
lifetime. 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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