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Also by Julie Otsuka:

The Swimmers, March 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

The Swimmers
Julie Otsuka

A novel

Knopf
March 2022
On Sale: February 22, 2022
Featuring: Alice
144 pages
ISBN: 0593321332
EAN: 9780593321331
Kindle: B095MMJYSR
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fiction Family Life

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. 

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